Jesus Manifesto is a webzine that caught my attention last year. They describe themselves like this:
The Jesus Manifesto is a clearinghouse for propaganda meant to frustrate and disrupt quaint notions of Jesus (and the even quainter notions of the religion he founded). You see, we’re convinced that what passes for Christianity in our culture has very little resemblance to the radical (and indeed political) movement Jesus started on the fringes of the Empire roughly two-thousand years ago. Most of the ways in which we’ve been taught to think about our faith get in the way of following Jesus. Some of the categories we’ve inherited—at least the ones I’ve inherited—are simply inadequate. And so, it is easy to follow our Christian convictions while being at odds with Christ.
But beyond disruption and subversion, we want to proclaim something much deeper–hope. You can only challenge things for so long before you need to help create the alternative. Ultimately, this is what the Jesus Manifesto is all about. We want to captivate you with a kingdom vision and explore what it would look like to make that a tangible reality.
I’ve gotten a couple of my articles posted with them (and I’m pretty excited about it!). The latest one they posted for me is titled “Radical Dissent: Poetry by Wendell Berry and the Mad Farmer.” You can read it here. A few months ago I also submitted an article titled “Another Song About Me?” and you can read that one here.
!Viva La Revolución! ![]()