U R G E N T
STOP PRESS
NEEDS ACTION
BIOTECHNOLOGY GONE MAD
Large Brand-name Corporations promote eating human tissue
What do you call a Conference looking into a Christian genre that
hasn't even been born yet??
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Are you a Christian anarchist (or anarchic Christian) without knowing it??
By the way, the LORD knows Christianity is in urgent need of a fix. (Not rocket science!)
The post-modern era spells Dire Straits for meaningful Christianity.
(But you won't find a word about it on the Church website. Churches are anything
but transparent organisations!)
Tumult at megachurch - Christian Science Monitor predicts megachurch domino effect
Enter a bearded man. SHANE is married with two children. He lives at Gembrook and sometimes chooses to live on Melbourne streets. He had an idea. Steve and Jane approved. It's starts on May 6 AD2012
So the first Christian Anarchist weekend was birthed.
i was at Loophole Community when I heard a lady discussing it with Cranky Phil, a former Food-Not-Bombs guru with a thick metal nosering. So I thought I'd publicise this very interesting once-in-a-lifetime gathering.
Here is Shane's CHRITIANARCHY flyer
Seeds of a New World
(Keeping up with anarchist tradition, he has given a wrong email address!)
Gembrook Retreat (NOT a megachurch) is a Quaker-associated
hilly farm with chestnut trees, flowers and more.
They encourage
Home Schooling too!!
The Quakers (aka Society of Friends) is a denomination having home gatherings.
Well...
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| Main house, Gembrook Retreat |
It's past Cockatoo. The historic Puffing Billy steam train
now terminates there.
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Contact Gembrook Retreat
- and taste some live chestnuts?
Only $20 for the weekend
Anarchist prices!!
215 Beenak East Road
Gembrook
03 5968 1211
info@gembrookretreat.org.auSOME LINKS ...................
Websites, Blogs
Marcus Curnow (the Great, Vic) Ched Myers (Marcus likes his Stuff)
Servants (to Asia's Urban Poor) Brian Edgar's Public Theology
Dave Andrews (author: Christi-anarchy; Waiters Union Qld)
Simon Moyle (Peace Nazi & Pastor) Emergent Village (voice of 'Emerging Church', USA) Ethos Australia Urban Seed (Vic) Home Schooling Australia Peter Corney (Vic)
Servants (to Asia's Urban Poor) Brian Edgar's Public Theology
Dave Andrews (author: Christi-anarchy; Waiters Union Qld)
Simon Moyle (Peace Nazi & Pastor) Emergent Village (voice of 'Emerging Church', USA) Ethos Australia Urban Seed (Vic) Home Schooling Australia Peter Corney (Vic)
Mainly for the ladies
Sarah Buckley (Qld)
Churches
New Earth Tribe (Byron Bay, NSW) Solomon's Porch (Minnesota, USA)
St Matthews Lutheran (Footscray, Vic)
Articles
Silent Carmelite nuns take on Coal Seam Gas Inc
Written lecture - Mysticism, action, Christianarchy (Adf, 2000) Thomas Merton (Wikipedia)
Dorothy Day (Wikipedia)
