Goshen College president, Jim Brenneman, recently announced that the Mennonite college will begin to play the National Anthem at their sporting events. The move to overturn 114 years of resistance to the war song came in response to local pressure and press after 300 people — mostly non-Mennonites — contacted the school after hearing about [...]

Editor’s Note: If you are a part of an intentional community (new monastic, catholic worker, etc) and would like to get the word out, we’d be happy to help. Contact us for more information.
Missio Dei (located in South Minneapolis) has a room opening in one of its community houses. In particular we’re looking for [...]

I am intensely interested in connecting with people who are interested in starting intentional communities, new monastic communities, radical Christian communities, and neighborhood-based missional communities that resonate with the sort of ethos that we pursue here at Jesus Manifesto.
In order to help in the process of fostering communities, I’m going to be traveling around the [...]

The Omaha Catholic Worker Community (OCW) Vision Aims to provide a Hospitality House for up to five (5) Homeless Men.  We strive to accomplish our Vision in a 3+ bedroom home that is complete with a living room, a dining room, chapel space, 2 restrooms, a shower, office space, a full basement and a garden.  [...]

I had a conversation with someone the other day about the ways in which webzines (like the Jesus Manifesto) are not only moving beyond one-way communication (like print magazines), but also beyond simple two-way communication (where readers can comment). Rather, there are a growing number of ways that readers can contribute without it being a [...]

Welcome to the new (and I hope improved) Jesus Manifesto. If you take a look around, you may notice the following:

The categories have been renamed.
There is now a single highlighted main article with a rotating list of seven featured articles.
There are five separate submission forms, one for each category (look for the link before each [...]

Editor’s Note:  Hey folks, I want to invite y’all to the upcoming Common Root gathering on February 13-14th in Minneapolis (you can register here). The registration costs are by donation–so name your price. We want to make it easy for folks to be able to come. Furthermore, we’re working on finding hospitality for those who [...]

That’s right. Our good friend and co-conspirator Derek Webb, whose sins include (in no particular order)…
1. Breaking away from the “Christian” music industry
2. Making anti-nationalism a theme on all three of his solo albums
3. Challenging the political and religious status quo
4. Giving away music for free
…runs a site called Noise Trade, where albums from [...]

Missio Dei will be hosting a School for Conversion on December 12-14.  The School For Conversion offers theological education and practical formation for the sake of conversion into a new way of life. Based in Christian communities of neo-monastic discipleship, SFC facilitates study directed toward the creation of new community and creative expressions of God’s [...]

I think it would be very interesting if the folks who read Jesus Manifesto would share their voice on this survey that will be used to identify the most important innovations in local churches for Outreach Magazine. Usually, Outreach lists the “25 Most Innovative Churches” and it includes the usual suspects (Willow, Saddleback, Mars Hill [...]

Last week, thecommonroot.org was launched. The Common Root is a network for communities committed to Jesus’ radical way of shalom. This network used to be called “Submergent,” but we changed the name for a couple reasons.

Radical Living–a new monastic community in New York City–has rooms for 1 female and 2 males. They are, from what I’ve heard, one of the more “solid” new communities out there, so this would be a great opportunity for those of you interested in living in intentional community.
Here’s some info about Radical Living:
Radical Living is [...]

I direct your attention to two somewhat related posts regarding race and ethnicity.
The first post (on Emergent Village) by Anthony Smith challenges those non-voting white folks who encourage black folks to abstain from voting. Here’s a snippet:
Voting, as it is oftentimes seen by historically marginalized groups, is a precious gift. It is not seen, within [...]

It has been a good year for Jesus Manifesto. Our reader base is widening and the quality of content is deepening. Only two things remain: we need more content and we are due for a redesign. We’ve got some folks working on the latter, but I need you’re help on the former.
Over the past year, [...]

I’m not sure if anyone cares about these stats, but I find it interesting that only about 2/3 of our readers are from the US. It is also interesting that predominantly English-speaking nations rank 3rd (Canada), 4th (UK) and 8th (Australia). Interestingly, Brazilians make up a little over 5% of our reader base. Here’s the [...]

I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Jesus Radicals conference in Columbus, Ohio. My session (on the relationship between Church and State) will be on Friday afternoon. If you’re in the area, drop by. I’d love to meet some of the folks who frequent this site. Here’s the info:
August 15-16, 2008
St. John’s Episcopal
1003 W Town
Columbus, OH [...]

Here’s an event in October that might be of interest to some readers:
The National Assembly to Honor Freedom of Conscience is the first annual event to raise awareness of soldiers no longer wishing to serve their country through violence. This assembly welcomes everyone, both soliders and civilians, who have an interest in or curiosity about [...]