Radical Discipleship: Seven Communities

On March 13, 2015March 4, 2015 By RadicalDiscipleshipIn Cloud of WitnessesLeave a comment

By Tim Nafziger, originally posted at Geez Magazine

Radical Discipleship: Seven communities that have shaped my journey as an Anabaptist

From February 16-20, 2015, I was immersed in the Between Seminary, Sanctuary, Streets and Soil: A Festival of Radical Discipleship. The gathering featured over 80 presenters from communities around the U.S. Their stories of radical discipleship inspired me to put together this primer of seven communities that I have visited and interacted with over the past decade. Each of them were represented at the Festival.

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Afterglow

On March 9, 2015March 11, 2015 By RadicalDiscipleshipIn Art as ResistanceLeave a comment

The prose and poetry have been pouring out of the Ventura River Watershed over the past two weeks since the conclusion of the Festival of Radical Discipleship. This is from Ted Lewis, a restorative justice practitioner in Duluth, MN.

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The Festival of Radical Discipleship

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Radical Discipleship is about nothing more and nothing less than laying bare the roots of the personal and socio-political pathologies of our imperial society and its dead-end history, even as we seek to recover the roots of our deep biblical tradition. And what tradition is that? It is the messianic movement of rebellion and restoration, of repentance and renewal, a “Way out of no way” that has been going on since the dawn of resistance to the dusk of empire.
Ched Myers, Opening Ceremony of The Festival of Radical Discipleship, Feb 16, 2015
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Last week, Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries hosted their first ever Festival of Radical Discipleship in the Ventura River Watershed of Southern California. The 60th birthday of Ched Myers, one of the godparents of the Radical Discipleship Movement, provided an ample excuse for 170 of us to get together for inspiration, prayer, strategy, celebration and mayhem. Myers asked, “How might our Movement be more healthy and sustainable if we celebrated each other more often?”
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