Editors

General Editor: Mark Van Steenwyk

Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei (Missio Dei is an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace). Mark is a writer, speaker, and grassroots educator (which means that he tries to mess with people’s thinking, but he usually does this outside of an institutional setting…though he has done some adjunct work with Bethel University).

Mark has also started a network called Christarchy! that exists to help people form small groups to discuss and implement the sorts of ideas presented at Jesus Manifesto.

He also conspires with emerging Anabaptists (and anabaptistic emergents) through Submergent, a network of leaders who, informed by an Anabaptist vision, are living into the Kingdom of God in a postmodern, post-colonial, post-Christian world. Together, we will re-baptize the Christian imagination!

He and his wife Amy have been married since 1997. They, along with their son Jonas, live with a random assortment of friends in South Minneapolis.

Co-Editor for Praxis and Doxis: Michael Cline

Michael Cline is a freelance pastor and over-employed learner who hasn’t figured out a way to get paid for any of his interests, but refuses to get a real job just yet. Despite being a theological mutt, he has decided to take his Anabaptist-Orthodox-Ancient/Future-Holiness faith into the Wesleyan Church where he seeks a life of radical discipleship within the traditional church setting. After a few years of overly glorified cynicism, he’s entering a second naiveté; meaning he’s crazy enough to think it just might work. When not reading and writing towards his MDiv from Bethel Seminary, he’s doing more of the same at his blog.

Co-Editor for Culture and Aesthetics: Kimberly Roth

Being a highly career-oriented individual, Kimberly Roth parlayed a degree in philosophy and sociology into a skyrocketing job as an Executive Assistant - coffee, anyone? Exercising her day-job to conceal a covert life as an armchair theologian and pop-culture guru, Kimberly spends way too much time rambling on at www.barefootbohemian.blogspot.com. She lives in community, which means there is both a married man and a baby in her home… neither of them belonging to her, or to each other. Kimberly owns more music than she can listen to, hordes more books than she can read, and is a self-proclaimed yard sale queen. She also loves the show Clean Sweep and does not see the irony in the situation. Kimberly likes to explore the deeper side of life: the infinite superiority of front porches to back yards; comparisons and contradictions between Southern and Christian hospitality; why Jeff Tweedy is a genius despite singing in jibberish. One day she will write from the porch of her dream home, where all will be welcomed and the sweet tea will flow in abundance. Her passion is to see the gospel of God’s kingdom preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and that those who call ourselves Christians in our nation, who have had our share of the preaching, will learn how to live that kingdom out with one another.