A Shift Towards Sustainable Community

On September 14, 2016August 24, 2016 By RadicalDiscipleshipIn Art as Resistance, Subverting Empire1 Comment

An update from Mark Van Steenwyk, the co-founder of the Minneapolis Mennonite Worker:

I’ve gotten a few comments and messages expressing the assumption that The Mennonite Worker is closing, or has closed. That isn’t true (in one way), but it is true (in another way). Let me explain.

We launched the Mennonite Worker (originally called Missio Dei) in 2004. We started as an urban church with a strong commitment to living out the way of Jesus in a particular area of Minneapolis (mostly around the Cedar Riverside neighborhood). Within the first couple of years, we began a strong radical shift towards becoming an intentional community that lived more deeply into the sorts of radical practices Jesus calls us to embrace: hospitality, peacemaking, prayer, and simplicity. Continue reading “A Shift Towards Sustainable Community” →

School For Revolution: Exploring Ways To Ruin More People

On September 5, 2014October 6, 2014 By RadicalDiscipleshipIn Subverting Empire1 Comment

We sat down for a little email interview with Mark Van Steenwyk of the Mennonite Worker (right) in Minneapolis a few days ago. He is spearheading a new “School For Revolution” debuting October 23rd to 25th this year:

**This post was edited on September 13, 2014 at 8amEST.
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RD: What led to the start of this new “school?”

MVS: Dorothy Day referred to Catholic Worker communities as “schools for revolution.” I resonate with that idea. Our goal at the Mennonite Worker is to ruin people for productive life in the empire; we want all of our residents to be captivated by Jesus’ kingdom vision. Continue reading “School For Revolution: Exploring Ways To Ruin More People” →

Openings At The Minneapolis Mennonite Worker

On August 12, 2014October 6, 2014 By RadicalDiscipleshipIn Subverting EmpireLeave a comment

Exciting opportunity from the Mennonite Worker in Minneapolis:

We have residential openings in September or October: preferably a couple or folks who are willing to share a room. Please spread word: we’re moving into some exciting new directions as a community and would love to be joined with folks who not only want to live in an intentional Christian community, but would like to help give shape to our next season of ministry. In the next several months, we’ll be launching the Gene Stoltzfus Center for Creative Peacemaking, starting a community business (more on that below), and releasing a new educational initiative…

The Mennonite Worker is an urban intentional community committed to following Jesus’ way of hospitality, simplicity, prayer, peacemaking, and resistance. We are a Mennonite congregation whose way of life together is deeply influenced by the Catholic Worker movement.

Read more here. Apply here.