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Conspire Issue 6: Economy of God

by Various Contributors

Alternative Economics, Community, Conspire

This CONSPIRE! is packed with creative and courageous responses to how to reshape your economic life to reflect the bounty of God. Here are creative experiments, hope-filled practice, and exciting possibilities as people share how they are trying to heed Jesus’s stark challenge to serve God, not Mammon.  Some are taming the tools of capitalism. Others share how they make life with a common purse work. There are reflections on living abundantly with economic limits. From well-known voices like Tom Sine, Ched Myers, Joyce Hollyday, and Shane Claiborne to the sharings of unnamed laborers in Indian slums, each contributor offers thoughtful commentary on living well with money, one of the strongest challenges of our materialistic age. For an economic toolkit to help individuals and groups bring together their money and values, see http://www.conspiremagazine.com.

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$5

Conspire Issue 5: Path and Place

by Various Contributors

Community, Spiritual Practices, Conspire

Clearly, our search for faithfulness elicits the seemingly contradictory impulses of wandering the earth in pilgrimage or grounding ourselves locally in long-term commitment to a particular place and people. Many of us have shaped a hybrid between the two, relocating to places of need and rooting ourselves there. This issue explores the gifts of these different choices and the strange, unexpected commonalities between them. It seeks to get at the learnings of allowing God’s call to reshape the most fundamental circumstances of our lives.

$19

Follow Me to Freedom audiobook

by Shane Claiborne & John Perkins

Community, Spiritual Practices, Audiobooks

John says it’s a book on leadership. Shane says it’s a book on followership. The truth is… it’s probably a little of both, and that’s exactly what we need. In an age of division over race, class, age, theology, and politics this book brings together an unlikely duo with a radical message of reconciliation. Their backgrounds are very different, but the future they invite us to imagine is exactly the same. Claiborne and Perkins harmonize their voices in this fresh, winsome, and insightful look at what it means to embody with our lives the gospel that we proclaim with our lips. Follow Me to Freedom is a call to lead—a life, a community, a revolution that moves the world a little closer to God’s dream.

This item is an audiobook.  The physical book is also available.

$11.99

Heaven and Earth - The Ordinary Radicals: Special Topics Vol 1

by Jamie Moffett

Community, Spiritual Practices, DVDs

The first installment of “The Ordinary Radicals: Special Topics” explores the historical development of the new movement towards justice-centered faith. Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, Brian McLaren, and others offer perspectives on the witness of the early Church, the social context surrounding the rise of fundamentalism, the emergence of a new understanding of a social gospel, and the construction of a new cross-denominational vision of unity for today’s church. Featuring special extended interviews with:

• Leroy Barber of MissionYear
• Tony Campolo
• Shane Claiborne
• Rene Colson
• Zach Exley
• Aaron Fiordomondo
• Lisa Sharon Harper
• Sister Margaret McKenna of New Jerusalem Now
• Brian McLaren
• Rick Perlstein
• Ron Sider

$15

New Monasticism

by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Community, Spiritual Practices, Books

New Monasticism is a growing movement of committed Christians who are recovering the radical discipleship of monasticism and unearthing a fresh expression of Christianity in America. It’s not centered in a traditional monastery (many New Monastics are married with children) but instead its members live radically, settling in abandoned sections of society, committing to community, sharing incomes, serving the poor, and practicing spiritual disciplines. New Monasticism by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove offers an insider’s perspective into the life of the New Monastics and shows how this movement is dependent on the church for stability, diversity, and structure.

$22

School(s) for Conversion

by Rutba House

Community, Spiritual Practices, Books

Product Description
Throughout the history of the church, monastic movements have emerged to explore new ways of life in the abandoned places of society. School(s) for Conversion is a communal attempt to discern the marks of a new monasticism in the inner-cities and forgotten landscapes of the Empire that is called America.

$20

The Ordinary Radicals

by Jamie Moffett

Alternative Economics, Community, Do It Yourself, Politics, Prayer, DVDs

In the margins of the United States, there lives a revolutionary Christianity. One with a quiet disposition that seeks to do “small things with great love,” and in so doing is breaking 21st Century stereotypes surronding this 2000 year old faith. The Ordinary Radicals is set against the modern American political and social backdrop of the next Great Awakening. Sharing a relevant outlook for people with all faith perspectives, director Jamie Moffett examines this growing movement.