Reduce, Re-use, Recycle…unless you live in la ceiba
Author’s Note: Just to give some context; I’m a mission worker with Eastern Mennonite Missions in La Ceiba, Honduras. I in conjunction with the local Mennonite congregation, work in Los Laureles, a...
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Immigration and the Church in Phoenix
I live in Phoenix, the front line in the war against the tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to be free. I would imagine everything here looks pretty awful from the outside, seemingly without a...
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Will we standby while Mubarak’s thugs massacre protesters in Egypt?
Like many of you, I’ve been watching closely as the events in Egypt unfolded this week. When the protests first began on Tuesday of last week it seemed like it might be a brief flare up, quickly...
View ArticleNow I Understand
This last year our church determined that we would open to shelter the local homeless each time the weather went below freezing, but the city wouldn’t permit other churches to open up. We live in a...
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Beyond Obamaism: Occupy Wall Street and the Capacity to Hope
Crossposted from As of Yet Untitled It’s been a month since I wrote a piece on Young Anabaptist Radicals about my experience of visiting Occupy Chicago. It was three days after they had started...
View ArticleAdrienne Rich: Visionary (1929-2012)
Several months ago I drafted a post on Occupy Wall Street suggesting that people interested in thinking through issues of race and gender (re)turn to Adrienne Rich as a wise source. We so often forget...
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Plantain massacre for a corporate land grab
As the sun hovered at the horizon, I got into the big canoe with 20 people from Las Pavas. We were mostly men with a few woman and one young boy. We pulled away from the bank of the river and began...
View ArticleGreetings From a New Anabaptist
It was only recently that I have come to identify with Anabaptist Christianity, and it has only been within the last few days that I have come in contact with Young Anabaptist Radicals. Nevertheless, I...
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The evil, rotten core of US war and empire and why it should make us all...
A page from the Martyr’s mirror depicting Geleyn Corneliss, who was hung by his thumb while his torturers played cards. Modified illustration from Third Way Cafe Crossposted from As of Yet Untitled...
View ArticleSince When Did Southern Baptists Become Anabaptists?
I am sure that many here and elsewhere are overjoyed with the popularity surge that Anabaptism is receiving of late, especially those that stem from Mennonite origins, since it has given them a means...
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The Kingdom of God and America (Crosspost)
Yesterday being Fatherâ€s Day, I naturally got to thinking about my father. I love him dearly, but he is literally the exact opposite of almost everything I stand for. To give you a rough picture of...
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The Politics of John Howard Yoder: 41 years of tiptoeing around power
This is cross-posted from As of Yet Untitled The last two months have seen a growing number of articles on John Howard Yoder’s sexual harassment and abuse of women (for a list of articles, see the...
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The Christian’s Constitution
There was one text in the Bible that has been the most influential on my life. It was this text that really helped convince me to become a Christian, and it was this text that brought me into radical...
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Rethinking Peter and the State
I recently wrote about Romans 13 and the state. I mentioned that I did not believe that text was even about the Roman government. I believe, based upon the evidence I have seen, that Romans 13 talks...
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Early Anabaptism as social movement, part 1: Movement of the Word, 1525-1535
This is the first in a four part series from my essay entitled, “The Early Anabaptist Movement through the Lens of Social Movement Theory.†By way of introduction to my piece, I wrote the...
View ArticleIs discernment a bureaucratic or a brotherly-sisterly process for Mennonite...
In a May 2014 letter in The Mennonite, C. Norman Kraus asked whether the role of Mennonite Church USA Executive Director (ED) and has begun to look like a "new papal office." He said, "…are we not...
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Learning from Bernie’s mistakes: an analysis of “How It All Came Apart for...
This morningâ€s NY Times piece, “How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders” is a must read for every supporter of the Sanders campaign. Itâ€s not a pleasant article, but learning from mistakes is...
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The complicity of nonviolence with white supremacy amidst the fires in...
This post was co-written by Tim Nafziger and Mark van Steenwyk in 2017 (see original) in response to the backlash against anti-fascists actions in Charlottesville, Virginian in August 2017. We’re...
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Anonymous as a Tactic
This was originally published by Tim Nafziger in Jesus Radicals on December 18, 2010 The arrest of Assange and attacks on Mastercard, Visa and Paypal by “Operation Payback†have garnered far more...
View ArticleThe last, best hope of earth: John McCain and US weakness
This was originally posted on Facebook on February 12, 2008. I just read John McCain’s victory speech after today’s Republican primaries. This passage caught my eye: They will paint a picture of the...
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