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Mike is now blogging! Go to zoecarnate: the blog!"Here is an exhaustive roundup of Christian sites...The emphasis is on "alterna-tive" Christian resources. There are enough surprises to draw you in and keep you en-gaged for hours." The collaborative book project is now available! Written in weeks and fea-turing Scot McKnight, Jo Guldi, Kester Brewin and plenty more (They even let yours truly, Mike, in. *blush*), all proceeds benefit the anti-slavery Not For Sale Campaign!
Thanks to a generous award from the Millennia Foundation, we are able to begin a much-need renovation of zoecarnate.com! We still have a ways to go, though, and we need your help. Your $3.00 donation will go a long way to help make us better than ever. Donate by clicking the link below or click here for more information. Thanks so much! Welcome. You've just stepped into a bold new universe. It's the universe as it is, right underneath our noses. It is the universe as it could be, if we all get to know each other, started swapping ideas, and praying with each other. You've just stumbled into the Library of the Alternative Christian Web. Picture, if you will, the most eclectic library on the planet. In here are venerated old tomes and exuberant new scribbles, on shelves that stretch up arced ceilings and into your living room. These "books" are created, down through the millennia, by mavericks and ne'er-do-wells like yourself: Rag-tag seekers who are desperate for the Spirit's stir-ring, to reveal the face of Father God in His beloved Son, Jesus the Christ. Mike Morrell and Philip Scriber (that's us) are your librarians. We've buried ourselves in these vol-umes and are at your service. More than a broad Google, search, we've scoured the Internet. for only the very best, and compiled these visual and audio treasures in a way that hopefully feels natural makes sense. Feel free to explore the lavish riches of the Lord with us, herein.
PS: Who are we? We are former roommates and alumni from Berry College and are part of a house church community in the Ra-leigh/Durham, NC, USA-area. Be in touch! PPS: What has been in motion for five years (sparking a conference at Duke last year) is now being born in our midst! Namely, an intentional house church community in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area. Mike and Jasmin have moved, as well as around a dozen other denizens of the divine. If you're in the area and interested in hanging out with us some time, go here for more details. An article cov-ering our initial conference at Duke can be read here. Special Note: Wanna start a revolution? Then let's all meet face to face! One awesome way to do this is through Meetup. Meetup is a really cool program/website that facilitates the gathering of like-minded people the planet over, in your hometown. You put yourself on, tell where you're from, and pick out one day a month for you all to get together. Below are the two meetups that we're part of. If every-one who visited this site signed on to one or both of these Meetups, we'd all be more connected. We could eat together, share ideas, and maybe even touch the manifest presence of God! Check them out: And without further ado...
Site DivisionsContemplative Revelation: Union with God in ChristThe Shack Read this today! Metamorpha Online spiritual formation Abiding Life Approaches To Prayer Be Still A DVD on contemplative prayer from an evangelical perspective; featuring Jan Johnson, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, & others A Centering Prayer Retreat transcript Centering Prayer See cool intro article here Centering From The Center podcast Center For Action and Contemplation with Richard Rohr Chill Christ As Us "As I Am, so you are in this world" John and Linda Bunting Christ In Y'all Christ In You Jim Fowler Christ Ministries Christ Our Revelation by Jeanne Guyon Christ Within Chris and Susan Ber-glund Christian Mystic Writings from Sojourn Community Christian Mystics Christian Mysticism Wikipedia article Christian Meditation Wikipedia article Christ-Life Fellowship Warren Litzman Christ Life Ron Marr Cloud of Witnesses Communion With God Mark and Patti Virkler Contemplation and Christian Mysti-cism Eric Rose Contemplative Fire Contemplative Outreach Thomas Keating Contemplative Prayer with William Meninger Contemplative Poetry Contemplative Rudder The Contemplative Society with Cynthia Bourgeault Contemplative Spirituality: A Guide Martha Ainsworth DoxaSoma The integration of prayer, worship and physical movement Embrace of God The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina Eclesia Revelation An intriguing 'blog by An-dre and Mary-Anne Rabe The Eckhart Society The Felt-Presence of God by Frank Viola Finding Real Life Francois Fenelon Biography Fullness of Life In Christ Ken Walker God Life Goshen Place Jim Hager In-Christ Classics Featuring E. Stanley Jones, AB Simpson, T. Austin-Sparks, Peter Wade and more Indwelt Jan Johnson Author and retreat host Jeanne Guyon Biography Julian Meetings Find or host contemplative prayer gatherings in your area. Kyrie Lectio Divina with the Benedic-tines Lectio Divina with the Carme-lites Lectio Divina For Dum-mies An insightful reflection by Bill Heroman Living Temples Lost: Depths and Riches of Jesus Christ Many more mystic writings Meat In Due Season Writings of Guyon, Fenelon and many more The Mercy Site Contempla-tive prayer for evangelicals; particularly focuses on intersections between intercessory prayer, prophetic listening, and contemplative prayer Mirror Reflection Francois du Toit Much More of Jesus Tripp Camp-bell New Life Not Improved, But Replaced OneHouse Contemplative On The Rock Bill Stephenson Poetry of John of the Cross Positive Words Peter Wade Practice God's Presence Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence Praxis Resources for spiritual formation and contemplative living Praxis Institute Studies in Inner Christianity Pray The News Contemplative prayer and current events Praying Church On contemplative prayer Quieting Prayer Renovare Bringing The Church To the Churches; Richard Foster Revelation Reveals Jesus! Shalem Spiritual Formation Forum Spiritual Letters by Francois Fenelon Solitude with God Sandra Rooney Taste Heaven Now The Beguine Society The Centering These folks have a great reading room The Centre of Incarnatology Center for Spiritual Develop-ment Portland, OR The Contemplative Society Cynthia Bour-geault The Exchanged Life The Spiritual Guide by Miguel Molinos Theocentric Rich Vincent Union Life UnionLife.org Sovereign Grace, Union with God, and Preterism! What an eclectic mix. Women's Voices: Jeanne Guyon World Community for Christian Meditation with John Main Writings of Theresa of Avila Lift Up Your Hearts Christian Spirituality Portal (Use discernment, but...some real gems here! Inner Explorations (Ditto Here!) Spiritual Directors International (Same here) Aspen Chapel Wisdom School Bibliomystic An annotated bibliography of Christian (as well as global religious) mysticism, from Carl McColman Christian Mystic Meetups Cohort groups 'round the country Spirituality For All The Wrong Reasons by Eugene Peterson. An engaging challenge to much of the above material. Peterson's antipathy toward overt mysticism should be noted, however. Three Tempta-tions of Spiritual Formation Evan Howard, Christianity Today (For much more, see Important and Treasured Writ-ings From Excellent Authors)
Godís New Deal & Lavish GraceAbide In ChristAbiding Life Ministries International Acts 13 Ministries "Proclaiming the whole council of God" Angies Grace Asylum Association of Exchanged Life Ministries Battered Sheep Ministries Christ Is All Christ My Life Complete In Christ Cindy Galdal Daniel Yordy Deeper Into Christ Desiring God Christian Hedonism Divine Romantics Enjoying God Sam Storms Does anyone know what happened to Eternity Now? Free 'N' Him Freedom's Ring Recovery From Legalism, Moving in Unity Gospel of Grace Ministries Grace Abounding Gracebridge Internet Radio Grace Fellowship International Grace Head Trent Fuller Grace Life Ministries Lots of arti-cles Grace Ministries International Counseling and discipleship Grace Pages (archives here) Grace Walk Steve McVey Graced Again E-newsletter Grow In Grace Hope In Christ In Christ Teaching In-Depth Studies on the wonderful nature of the New Covenant Key Life Network with Steve Brown Life In Jesus Ken and Cathie Page Lifetime Guarantee With the Gillham family Linked In Christ Lisa Brookins Live Life Abundantly Gerhard & Machtild Struckmann Living Covenant Living By Grace David Kuykendall Living In Grace Loving Grace Ministries Home of the "Let's Talk About Jesus" Radio Program - very rewarding. New Covenant Living New Way Ministries Larry Crabb People To People Classic Christianity Power of Passion Rob Egar Real Life In Christ Real Life Ministries Recovering Legalists Ministries Resting in Grace Searching Together for the riches of the New Covenant Shoulder-To-Shoulder Sola Gra-tia New Covenant Theology Solo Christo Christ Alone Sound of Grace John Reisenger, John Piper message archive Sound of the Bugle Tanswell and Portia Davidse Source Ministries Lewis Gregory Talk Grace Discussion forum Teleo The Father's Love Letter The Grace Project The Shovel Surfin' On Life Under Grace
The Persecuted Church WorldwideStand Today Solidarity and advocacy for the Persecuted ChurchVoice of the Martyrs Canada Voice of the Martyrs United States Center For Religious Free-dom Barnabus Fund Hope & aid for the persecuted church International Christian Concern Persecuted Church With a focus on China Safe Harbor (Learn about the atrocity of forced starvation/slavery/genocide in Sudan, against Christians and ani-mists at the hands of the undamentalist Islamic government to the north. Get daily news updates here) Christian Solidarity Worldwide Prayer For The Persecuted Church Christian Freedom International Jubilee Campaign Open Doors Persecution Project Jesus Radicals Martyrs Christian Monitor BASIC For our sisters and brothers in chains Prisoner Alert Pray and take direct ac-tion concerning those imprisoned in Jesus' name worldwide North Korean Christians Amnesty International Human Rights Without Frontiers Iranian Christians Advocacy and support for Iranian and Afghan Christians worldwide Scripture OnlineHear The Voice Outstanding website for Scrip-ture rendition project involving poets, pastors, musicians, authors & scholarsOne Year Bible Blog read the Bible in a narrative-chronological order! Blogging the Bible With Slate's David Plotz; a cosmopolitan Jewish perspective Crosswalk Parallel Bible Look up two translations at once Online Parallel Bible Bible Gateway Includes several non-English translations The Unbound Bible Net Bible Translation With Apocrypha Semantic Bible "Creating new applications of markup, web technology, and linguistic analysis to give fresh perspectives and open up new possibilities for using the Bible in the Digital Age" Bible Map A global Bible atlas the harnasses Google Maps! Blue Letter Bible Early Jewish Writings from Scripture to Apocalyptic writings to rabbinical works Early Christian Writings the New Testament and more writings before AD 400 Open Scrolls Project The Dead Sea Scrolls in English Bibles In Your Language Online, print, and audio bibles in 140 languages Chronological Bible Storying A narrative approach to Scripture for oral learners Oral Bible Network The Books of the Bible A narrative, chrono-logical Bible translation without chapter-and-verse! Recovery Version New Testament English Standard Version The new Re-formed/conservative evangelical translation Klingon Language Version No, this isn't a joke Apocrypha and Bible in RSV The Noncanonical Homepage Check out the Shepherd of Hermas and Clement, and Enoch in the Pseudepigrapha Shepherd of Hermas and Didache Postmodern Bible Commentary with Amos And Adam Knew Eve A Diction-ary of Sex in the Bible The Bible on the Poor Read all about it! Zhubert Greek and Hebrew "tagging" for popular Bible translations Mechon Mamre Hebrew, English and Aramaic translations of the Tanakh, plus the full Oral Law and MP3 re-cordings. TanakhML Project Includes a fully cantil-lated Hebrew text, parallel Hebrew-English translation, verse structure analyzer and more. Very useful. Ma'agar Sifrot haKodesh A full Hebrew (i.e., no English) text with links to relevant references in Rabbinic literature. Arabic Bible Greek Bible The Schocken Bible A beautiful & poetic Jewish rendering of the Torah One Deep Well Great site on Scripture read-ing by the American Bible Society Perseus Digital Library hosted by Tufts University. Transliterations and full texts of the Latin Vulgate and Greek NT here. The Pep-per Bible An illuminated manuscript of the Bible, handmade and written in pen and ink by James G. Pepper over two decades St. John's Bible A contemporary illu-minated manuscript Grown-Up Story Bible A narrative Bible work-in-progress by Bill Heroman In The Bible? Sayings often attributed to Scripture...that aren't! Bible Translations and Editions From New Testament Gateway Resource Pages For Biblical Studies Neil Booth's Bible Brief Wow. An impressive collection of online bibles in many languages. Internet Sacred Text Archive Not just Judeo-Christian, but certainly that too. Great Books OnlineThe Library of Christian Classics Also known as Chris-tian Classics Ethernet LibraryThe Liberating Secret Jeanne Guyon, William Law, Norman Grubb, Walter Lanyon, Dan Stone Meat In Due Season Guyon, Fenelon, Sparks, George Warnock, Charles Newbold Pass The Word Fenelon, Molinos, Guyon, Wm. Law (there is Shaker stuff here too) Beholding and Becoming by Jerry Coulter Radical Grace Treasury of timeless writings from precious saints through the ages. Spirit of the Word Jeanne Guyon Walter Lanyon, John Whittle, George Lamsa Christian Corps F.J. Hugel, Dorothy Sayers, Andrew Murray, Grubb, Muggeridge, C.S. Lewis, FF Bruce, Watchman Nee, Smith Wigglesworth, G.K. Chesterton & More Glorify His Name Bernard of Clairvaux, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Brother Lawrence, A.B. Simpson, E.M Bounds, A.W. Tozer & more Neve Family Reading Guyon, Tozer, Nee, Sparks, Frank Viola, more WHOA!!! That's all I can say. Books galore. Online Friends (Quaker) Texts Margaret Fell, John Woolman, Robert Barclay, George Fox St. Pachomius East Ortho-dox Library Making of America Original pri-mary source documents from the University of Michigan Plough E-books WOW, 45 quality e-books FREE, courtesy of the Bruderhof Foundation Mission-Shaped Church Ground-breaking study now available as free e-book Electronic Books On House Church Christian Anarchist Books Online Heavy stuff, but worth the read Ekklesia Project Online Pamphlets Anabaptist History and Theology (See this too) Living Temples Books Boehme, Law, Paxson, Murray, Grubb, Penn-Lewis, Pier-son, and more Revival Library What it sounds like Our Daily Blog Daily readings from Christian classics, from Euro-Kiwi Andrew Jones University of Pennsylvania 10,000+ books of all kinds University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Project Gutenberg Over 5000 electronic texts Find Articles Over five million articles online; free and subscription sections Questia This is a subscription site, but is worth mentioning as it has thousands of books and articles Important and Treasured Writings From Excellent Au-thorsInward Outward In the tradition of the Bruderhof Daily Dig, a daily online selection of excellent writing. From Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC.Heinrich Arnold T. Austin-Sparks The Repository Archives of two very rich magazines, A Witness and A Testimony (edited by T. Austin-Sparks),1968-1971, and Toward the Mark (edited by Harry Foster), 1972-1989. Hans Urs Von Balthasar Wendell Berry Leonardo Boff Walter Brueggemann Frederick Buechner Bonhoeffer's Cell Bonhoeffer Dot Org Oswald Chambers Pi-erre Teilhard de Chardin Grand Inquisi-tor excerpt from Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Jonathan Edwards Jaques Ellul Jaques Ellul again Ellul.org ...and more Ellul! Vernard Eller Norman Grubb Stanley Hauerwas Soren Kierkegaard Dot Org by Dan Storm The Kierkegaarden Soren Kierkegaard Martin Luther King Jr. Frank Laubuch Walter C. Lanyon Website Best of Walter Lanyon Walter C. Lanyon Homepage The Unofficial William T. Cavanaugh Ar-chive Madeline L'Engle Madeline L'Engle's official site C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis once again Narnia Dot Org Memphis C.S. Lewis Society George MacDonald Unspoken Sermons of George MacDonald The Crea-tion in Christ by George MacDonald A.W. Tozer Brennan Manning Great interview with him here. Thomas Merton Watchman Nee Julian of Norwich Karl Barth Leslie Newbigin Henri Nouwen Peace Pilgrim Leonard Ravenhill Oscar Romero The Shelter Francis Schaeffer Francis Schaeffer Dot Com Bakht Singh of India DAWN ebooks Simple Church e-Books Church planting resources including The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by Roland Allen Good News Australia Writ-ings Everyone from Norman Grubb, Dan Stone and Ruth Paxson to Henry Emer-son Fosdick A.W. Tozer Evelyn Underhill Association Brian Walsh George Warnock George Warnock via Temple Builders John Wesley John Wesley and Holiness literature Dallas Willard John Wimber Mike Yaconelli John Howard Yoder Bibliomystic An annotated bibliography of Christian (as well as global religious) mysticism, from Carl McColman For more excellent writing see Eclectic Christian Book Catalogs Audio-Visual MadnessMP3s and Podcasts and Streaming 'Oh my!'The Nick & Josh Podcast Wired Jesus Brian McLaren Podcast Wired Parish (Subscription site) RPM Network The Fo-rum at Grace Cathedral; tons of archived original interviews; featuring David Bat-stone, NT Wright, Anne Rice and more! Conversatio Fide A Next-Wave Podcast Oxegen Podcast Eddie Fourie The God Journey "Christianity for the Rest of Us," Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings E-Merg Podcast Christian Counterculture Web Ra-dio Project Podcast E-Church Podcast With Tim Bendar A Different Perspective With Alan Hartung Out of Fellowship Craig Bob; "Christianity Outside The Church" Salem Gathering Podcasts Steve Brown Etc. with...you guessed it! Third Way Faith With Shane Hipps and Zach Lind Theohacks Good News Geeks Christian Tape Ministry Audio mes-sages from Sparks, Kaung, Fromke, Lambert, & more Christian Classics Ethereal Library Audio Like their print counterpart , this site has some awe-some classic MP3s Pray As You Go Daily prayer brought to us by some innovative UK Jesuits Free Christian Audio Books Featuring some CK Chesterson, Sundar Singh, Leo Tolstoy and more PrayStation Pod-cast Daily prayer taken from the Liturgy of the Hours Sermon Index Obscure audio and fa-vorites alike from A.W.Tozer, T. Austin Sparks, Corrie Ten Boom and Art Katz Allelon Audio With mes-sages from Eugene Peterson, Dallas Willard, NT Wright, & Brian McLaren Emergent Village Podcast Emergent Village Resources Presently has some Bruggeman and Wright Open Source Theology Talks Some NT Wright here at present Emerging Minister Audio Brian McLaren Messages Want something decent to listen to for about 15 minutes? Look no further than the Cedar Ridge gang Jacob's Well Ditto here with Tim Keel and Co.'s MP3s Key Life Network with Steve Brown Mosaic Podcast with Erwin McManus and Co. Vineyard Central Podcast Feed Mars Hill Audio with Rob Bell and Co. Off-The-Map Media Center Provoke Radio Jesuit justice podcasting...ohh yeah Here Comes Everybody A video-archived conference featuring Diana Butler-Bass, Brian McLaren, and Alan Jones Mars Hill Audio A bimonthly 90 minute audio "magazine" Praxis Inner Christianity Post-Restorationist Radio Podcast portal for emerging Church of Christ-ers Regent Radio Featuring broad-casts by N.T. Wright, Larry Crabb, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson, Stanley Grenz, Gordon Fee, and more. BBC Re-ligion Audio Spiritual Revolution video by Allen KCM about Solomon's Porch in Minnea-polis Brian McLaren on Larry King Live . Tran-scripts here and video clips here . DeChurched Interviews Why don't people go to church? Kentucky Baptist video interview sessions Brian McLaren interview by Drew Marshall on September 3, 2005 Tony Campolo on The Colbert Report. Jim Wallis on the Daily Show John Stewart and Jim go at it in a humorous look at God's Politics Speaking of Faith "Public radio's national conversation about belief, meaning, ethics, and ideas." The Emerging Church Part One and The Emerging Church Part Two by Bob Abernathy and Kim Lawton in PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Emerging Church/Theological Education Caucus Princeton Audio With Karen Ward, Jonny Baker, Tim Keel, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren & more Meet Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Mp3 Interview with one of the Rutba House redidents on WUNC radio Derek Webb/Don Miller Chat Precisely what it sounds like. A one-time talk you can still download. EcoTalk Mike Bickle John Piper Greg Boyd The Cross and the Sword Greg Boyd's ground-breaking series questioning Christian's relationship to government Gracebridge Internet Radio Centering From The Center Christian Audio Downloadable audio books from Dallas Willard, Brennan Manning, Lauren Winner, Brian McLaren and more (pay site) GodTube: Broadcast Him Godtube. GodTube?! I don't know how I feel about this, nosiree. But methinks many zoe-carnate.com denizens could join the site and subvert it in the Jesus Way. What sayest thou? Sounds True Gen-eral spirituality audiobook site has original audio with Thomas Keating, James Finley, Cynthia Borgeault and more (pay site) Contemplative Outreach Northwest Lending Li-brary What a great idea. For a low cost, you can join this lending library and get hard copies of teaching on deeper forms of prayer. Relational "Home" Church Life:Christ In Y'all Neil CarterHouse Church Resource Present Testimony Frank Viola Pagan Christianity Frank Viola & George Ba-rna The Rebuilders Milt Rodriguez Knowing Him Together Tom Sparks Relational Christianity Geir Lie Balanced scholarly articles on Gene Edwards, Lance Lambert, Witness Lee and more Voices In the Wilderness Jour-nal Ex-Pastors' Page Stories, employment guide, and more Christian Tape Ministry Audio mes-sages from Sparks, Kaung, Fromke, Lambert, & more House To House Tony Dale and company HIS Life Wikipedia On Home Church Squidoo On House Church I'm not even sure what "Squidoo" is. Its kind've like Wikipedia, but more commercial and with-out much of the content..? Revelation of the Lost Keys excellent online book and site by Kevin Paul A Wilderness Voice Michael Clark In Search of A City George Davis (Many others excerpted, too!) Mystery Fellowship An intriguing approach to simple church--it's a mystery! Christ-Life Fellowship Warren Litzman Fellowship of Believers Churches Revolution 'Blog Lifestream Body Life, Wayne Jacobson (Read his way-cool 'blog) Paul Viera First Stone The God Journey Audio Webcast by Brad Cummings and Wayne Jacobsen Urban Ekklesia Church Happens Churchless Christian Philip Edwards; Auckland, New Zealand YBMT Blog Melting Paradigms, Formerly here and here and here and here as "Wa-tercarriers." Geo Howell, what are you thinking?! Koinonia Blog Stephanie Bennett, Hal Miller and more! Eclesia Revelation An intriguing 'blog by An-dre and Mary-Anne Haywards Simple Churches Simply Church Jon Dale Simple Church 'Blog House Church Chronicles John White House Church Blog Roger Thorman Hidden in Christ Post Scriptum The Revelation Bob Emery The Wind Native American Church Life, Bud Her-inger Church In Focus Darryl Erkel Next Reformation "Seeking to encour-age New Testament communities worldwide" Padion "Like A Little Child" 95 Theses For Apostolic Reformation Bob Lund Radical Christianity Nate and Joanne Krupp Homechurch-Homepage Tracey Amino House Church Central Home Church Dot Org House Church Life Ministry of the Word Bill Freeman Mega Shift An ambitious website on home churches and global change by Jim Rutz New Christian Paradigms Third Day Churches Church in the Third Millennium Simple Church On The Journey Doug Weaver Healing Communities Living Waters With Hoseah Wu, Christian Chen, Stephen Kaung and others The Pilgrim Path Jack Gray Open Churches Theses 2002 Great Commission House Churches Free House Church Re-sources Seeking The Old Paths Housechurch South Africa Shareon House Church Europe Oikos Australia House Church Australia House Churches Australia! Micro Church Australia House Church New Zealand Edge Home Church Networks New Zealand House Church Canada Spirit Rider Underground Church The Play! Searching Together Jon Zens Acts 29 Review "Dedicated to the continuing saga of the incomparable eternal purpose found in Jesus Christ." Christian Neutral Zone Wes Kindgom Relations Bill Bremer; Colorado Springs, CO Tribal Church Believers Underground Network (New Zealand) Home Church Network Organic Church "Church without the artifi-cial crap" Understanding Life In The Church Stephanie Bennett Gospel Recovery Network Truth For Free (Formerly Prayer Shack) Joyous Life Church in the House Tim Germain; see the DVD Vine & Fig Tree If you like your house churching with patriarchy, environmentalism, theonomy, and anarchy, look no further. : ) 2 or 3 Gathered Newsletter Awakening 1s Jesus Journey The Abiding Place Seedsowers An excellent house church/deeper life publisher Gene Edwards An experienced home church community planter/worker Living In The Tree of Life Holon Farm Fellership "Sharing the Lord with one another through conversation, meals and life." (Archives at Alice's Page) Free Spirit Read "If Trees Could Talk" Every Christian a Minister and a Priest Eating and Drinking with Jesus Christ Vicki's House Of Prayer Restoration Ministries Grand Junction, Colorado Nehemiah's Wall Michael & George's Homepage A Fruitful Place Brenda Imus Jenny Orr Music and Articles Lord You Are Music and Articles by Jack Helser Living Truth Dan and Brenda Beaty Prodigal God Frank Johnson God Is Building His Church, Kathie & David Walters Church Restoration Dan Hubbell Grace Abounding, "Promot-ing God's sovereign grace in Christ and continual ecclesiastical reformation " School of Christ Chip Brogden Century One Project Read "The Shape of Kings To Come" Clothman Jake Colsen The Church Today New Testament Ekklesia Global House Church Network Emerging Life Expeditions Into Church Life The Journey Into Jesus Christ New Testament Church Page House Church Network Disciple The Nations Home Church Site Jamfirs Oasis The Unveiling New Reformation Review Dan Trotter Parousia Network of House & Cell Churches; Spokane, WA The Glorious Church (Oneness Pen-tecostal/Baptismal Regeneration perspective) Well of Oath New Acts Max Ende UnChurch In Search of the Church "A journey, not a destination" Frank Daniels "Heresy" Page Glory Fellowship Homechurch In The River Return To Simplicity The Living Stone Neal Griffin E-Z Yoke Chapel 42 "Your Anti-Establishment, Anti-Organized Religion Resource" New Testament Restoration Foundation Sacred Cow Barbe-cue El Shaddai R. A. Hanes Manakin Reformation Rumblings Buff Scott, Jr. Christ In You Jim Fowler Two Ways of First Century Church David Anderson Rivers of Life for the 21st Century In Search of the Church Andy Zoppelt Breakthrough Prayer It's Not A Place Simple Church UK Simple Church Europe Truth At Last Joe Machuta Koinonia In Him Juli & Kenny Following Jesus Christ from Colin Thompson, a brother from England The Early Church Clifford James Body Servant Kent Secor Spiritual Christianity Beyond Protestantism Tom Lamb (NZ) The Radical Pilgrim Tom again! You Are All Brothers Ian Vincent of India Reality Now Anabaptist House Churches of Christ Father's Hand Fellowship of Believers (rather fundamentalist) Radio Show Jesus If Life Sigh. Such a nice name...if only the site weren't so fightin' fundie. Central Truth Ministries House Church Portal House-Church.com Coming Soon? In His Name Escape From Churchianity Shamar Church of Liberty Unleashing the Church Dave Black Return To New Testament Principles Drew Costen A Christian Home Happy Hearts Home Home churching children's resources Intentional Living 'Blog about living in common in Vancouver, BC, Canada Fellowship of the Mystery Some good articles...also some vehement rhetoric about certain issues, though, that we defi-nitely don't track with...just so you know. Food Recipes for home church meetings Servant Quarters Gayle Erwin Seekers of Christ Tom Finley Heather Wax Chasing the Wild Goose Jon Dale Marc van der Woude Holland Is This The way? Andrew in the Netherlands SaltSister Scroll Kat Brogdon Beyond the Four Walls Lyn Halle-well We Are In Jesus Tina Gasperson God Divas Jody and Wendei Toward Simplicity Miller Talbot Katrina Willis (Archives here.) Remnant House Brittain Bullock; Vancouver, WA Steve Holt Boston, MA Familyhood Church Columbus, OH Brent Davis Sparta, MO Our Lord's Ekklesia Rich Amick Sister's Talk Elizabethtown, KY Ekklesia Blog Wayne; Windsor, Ontario Mark Wills (Archives here.) Lindy Erin New York, NY Denver House Church Conference Blog Bill Reed; see also his Youth and Fam-ily blog Frederik L.A. by way of Sweden Mini Church Network Dead to My Flesh Matt Gonzales Decompressing Faith Lily; OR Sean Landolt And Then Life Happened Rich; Ontario Beyond Church Walls Spirituality Blog D.A. Wynne Who's Your Idol? Dawn; CO Remember Christ Secret Temple David Mead The History of the Un-derGround Church Weary Pilgrim Ron Cole Engineering The Word Larry Paga Home Church USA Ambassador Creative Expressions Alt.Religion.Christian.Home-church Newsgroup International Home Church Sites:Ordos Nuevos Spanish languageIglesia En Casas Spanish language House Church Voice China Life Share Switzerland Hauskirchen Austria Hauskirche Germany Lukas 10 Germany Vrije Christenen Belgium Hauskirchen Switzerland Indehuizen Netherlands Paradigm Shift Netherlands Articles About Home Church & RelatedGoing to Church by Staying at Home by Michael Alison Chandler and Arianne Aryanpur in The Washington PostHouse Churches Gaining Acceptance by Hannah Elliott, Baptist Associ-ated Press There's No Pulpit Like Home by Rita Healy and David Van Biema in Time Magazine New Faithful Practice Away From Churches Antonio Mora, CBS News Chi-cago What Is An Organic Church? by Frank Viola Worshiping Outside the Traditional Church Walls Paul Strand for CBN A Growing House Church Movement? Rev. Paul Williams doesn't think so! In The Christian Stan-dard. Christian Research Center Marks House Church Impact by Bill Dolack The Road Less Traveled by Paul Asay in The Colorado Springs Gazette The Megashift of the Worldwide Church Jim Rutz interview More Kids Being Home Churched A satirical article from The Onion; it's more a satire of home schooling than anything, but contains some wise prophetic counsel Frank Viola Pagan Christianity interview by Steve Eastman of Open Heaven Ex-Pastor Is Glad He's Finally Embraced House Church by Steve Eastman As Children And Slaves: Authority In The New Testament by Hal Miller Characteristics of an Apostle by Gene Edwards New Testament Eldership by Robert Banks The House Church Movement by Loren Smith in Bermudas The Royal Gazette Get with the De-Program by Rebecca Lomax in Cincinnati City Beat, OH House Churches Making A Comeback Search For The Right Church Ends At Home by Laurie Goodstein, New York Times House Churches: A True Form of Christian Gatherings Nice scriptural expository article; a bit heavy-handed in places Open House Church Articles from True Grace Ministries Home Churching or HIM Churching? Return To New Testament Church Principles by Drew Costen Where and How To Meet Church Building or Home Church? Home Grown Churches: Why some Christians never leave home to go to church by Craig Bird Wildheart John Eldredge interview; includes thoughts on house church Crosswalk Eldredge Inter-view The Church Comes Home: Families In Fellowship Beyond Argument: The powerful witness of commu-nity A Growing House Church Movement by Nate Krupp History of Home and Cell Churches by Joel Comiskey. A Ph.D. dissertation. Renewal Journal Special Issue on home church and community My Gripes About The House Church Movement Andrew Jones True Church by John W. Kennedy Home Churches In Moscow Home Churches In Moscow Great article on the free-dom of sisters in Christ Another great article on sisters' freedom House Churches, Home Churches, etc. (From a non-Christian Standpoint) "The Superman Syn-drome" Balaams-Ass.com article Dominant Clergy Ken-neth Sublett Missionary Tourism Generationally Indigenous Churches Why House Church? Home Assemblies and Bible Basics (A kind of Fundamentalist approach) Church: Where The Home Is TC Online (SBC) (Ecuador) Good Articles on Res-toration Come Home: Re-Discovering The House Church Alternative by Jason Johnston (FMC) A Brief History of the House Church Movement Church For The New Millennium (UK) When Christians Quit Church by Andy Butcher. A Charisma article on people leaving more established churches, and where they find them-selves. Why I Quit Church and Started Attending Love Feasts by Lynn Ridenhour. For your patriotic, apocalypic/remnant perspective on house churching, look no further. Church Building or Home Church? Unless of course you'd like another apocalyptic perspective. In which case read this. Various House Church Articles A Comprehensive Simple Church Resource Archive by Robert Grisham Overwhelms even us. It's HUGE! For more house church sites, see the Church Planters and House Church Networks section. Radical Christ-Centered Political Alternatives:Do you think you need to be a status-quo "Republican" or "Democrat" or "Ignora-mus" when it comes to politics? Heck no! Support real, organic, Christ-honoring alterna-tives. Some of the best we've found are right here. Kingdom Now Repentance for nationalist idola-tryJesus Radicals Biblical Christian An-archy & Nonviolence Ekklesia Project catholic anarchy Christ-i-anarchy Was Jesus An Anar-chist? by Sam Hine of the Bruderhof Communities Jesus Is An Anar-chist John Howard Yoder Politics of Jesus In-depth reading guide for Yoder's classic work Christian Soldier Christian Anarchism The all-important Wikipedia definition. Zero 28 Peace and Social Justice. Wherever. (Based in Ireland) Catholic Worker.com Many writing by Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, more. Catholic Worker.org More of the above; both have great writings on service and Christ-informed anarchy (See historical archives here) Catholic Labor Network Call To Renewal Ekklesia News UK Root & Branch Network UK The Simple Way Christonomy Promoting the rule of Christ The Revolution Among The Ruins Philip Hunt good articles Christian Communalism Heal Our Land Unlicense your church as a tool of the state! Theocracy Watch Rise Up International Blending the arts, humanitarian efforts, social activists, businesses and idealists into an agency of change Eclipsoul Proletariat Of God Chris Brenna; Minneapolis, MN Prophetic Heretic Jason Barr God's Politics Group 'blog Blue Christian on a Red Background Jon Trott Chicago, IL J-Walking David Kuo Black Dove Press Christian anarchist publisher Vine & Fig Tree Christian Anarchist This guy's a nut. But the site's a great read nonetheless. Pax ChristiPromoting the Peace of Christ in hearts and communities Christian Peacemaker Teams In Iraq, Colombia, and moreVoices In The Wilderness The Forgiveness Project I Forgive Osama A provocative project to bring reconciliation and love Christians Confess Peaceworks Prayer and mediation Peacemaker Ministries Hope for Christian conflict Third Way Virtual Peace Cafe International Reconciliation Coalition Peace School UK Forgiveness Bruderhof forgiveness guide Peace Church Radical Peace Every Church a Peace Church Break Dividing Walls Advocating diversity and promoting unity Kyrie Beatitudes Society Learning to Forgive Revolt Collective LearnPeace Humane Borders New Sanctuary Movement Churches providing emergency shelter to marginalized peoples Nonviolence Dot Org No To War Just Peace Catholic Social Teachings CAAT Campaign Against Arms Trade Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament United For Peace & Justice Justice and Compassion Send Judah First: A Pentecostal Perspective on Peace Christian Nonresistance and Pacifism Christian Pacifism Conflict of the Ages online book Church & Peace Justice Not Vengeance Active Peacemaking Colloquium On Violence & Religion Northwest Passages Peaceful Ends Though Peaceful Means A Christian witness for Peace in Israel and Palestine Palestinians and Israelis For Nonviolence Jewish Voice For Peace Not In My Name Seeking a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians B'Tselem Israeli information center for hu-man rights in occupied territories Sabeel Christian Palestinian Liberation Movement Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation Support Sanity Israel-Palestine peace fel-lowship and initiative Peacemakers Fostering Muslim-Christian un-derstanding Bridge Builders Fourth Way Mediation World Christian Frontiers International Fellowship of Reconciliation Jump here for the US branch and here for the UK branch The Narthex Eclipsoul Gutless Pacifist Hip Hop Caucus Longing Boy Emmanuel Ingelsten Peacemakers Guide From the Bruderhof Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution Preaching Peace Colloquium on Violence and Religion Rene Girard's mimetic theory gets nitty-gritty Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Young Pietists Christian Conscientious Objection Resources & laws concerning military enlistment & abstention in the United States (secular site here) Trinity Institute for Christianity and Culture Peace Coup Veterans For Peace Repentance lived out. September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tom-morrows Desmond Tutu Peace Center Romero Society "Finding the balance of those with and without" Jarrod Cochran Firefighter and Christian activist/speaker in Georgia Peace Museum Chicago The Carter Center Atlanta Bruderhof Museum New York Peaceful Societies A fascinating look at actual societies where conflict within the society and warfare with neighboring societies is close to zero. A Force More Powerful Documentary & book exploring real-life nonviolent struggles, features 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action Snowshoe Films Kids With Cameras Circus 2 Iraq The Cat's Dream California Newsreel Truth From A Heretic War Hurts Peace Convergence Peace Magazine The award-winning publication with full-text archives from 1985 Lion & Lamb A site dedicated to stop-ping the merchandising of violence to children and finding nonviolent toy alternatives Iraq Body Count Detailed, docu-mented counts of the lives of masses and individuals claimed in this latest war making The Lifeline Expedition A journey of friendship along the old transatlantic slave trade Domini Socially responsible mutual funds National Religious Campaign Against Torture QUIT Quaker Initiative To End Torture No 2 Torture Peace Tax Fund Insofar as you have to pay them, stop paying for war. National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Commit-tee International Peace Bereau Witness for Peace Nonviolence International Nonviolence Links Resources For Peace Humanitarian and Peace Organizations from Wikipedia Google's Peace Direc-tory Center On Conscience and War Resources for conscientious objectors to war and violence Wink! A tension-and-violence-relieving game (apparently) played only by Friends (Quakers)...but re-vealed now to the world here. Denominational Peace FellowshipsNow to our ears, "denomination" rhymes with "abomination;" We'll be happy when the post- denominational transition is complete and we'll no longer have to worry about the human-created institutions that divide sisters and brothers in Christ. But insofar as they're going to be with us for another decade or two, you should see what is going on in these denominations with regards to honoring Jesus, our Prince of Peace. A lot of the nitty-gritty work of creative, non-violent engagement with the powers is going on in these fellowships. Support them. Friends United MeetingSociety Of Friends England American Friends Service Committee Mennonite Central Committee Mennonite World Conference Anabaptist Network Mennonite Peace & Nonviolence Support Net-work On Earth Peace Church of the Brethren Pentecostal-Charismatic Peace Fellowship (See also paper Spirit-Empowered Peacemaking by Paul Alexander) Adventist Peace Fellowship Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America Baptist Peace Fellowship UK Ploughshares Canadian Council of Churches Disciples Peace Fellowship Disciples Peace Fellow-ship (A second site) Disciples Justice Action Network Orthodox Peace Fellowship Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Anglican Pacifist Fellowship Episcopal Peace Fellowship Catholic Peace Fellowship Institute For Peace and Justice Catholic Pax Christi International Catholic Peace Movement; jump here for UK and here for US branches. Lutheran Peace Fellowship Methodists Unite For Peace With Justice Methodist Federation for Social Action Consistently Pro-LifeWhat is "consistently pro-life," you might ask? Affirming life as God's gift in all situa-tions. Resisting the the culture of death affirmed in abortion, the death penalty, eutha-nasia, and war. Read on... Consistent Life Mary Meehan Writings of a consistent-life veteranA Consistent Life Ethic A(nother) Consistent Life Ethic Seamless Garmet A Consistent Pro-Life Ethic (See also Wikipedia article) Consistent Life from Christian Ethics Today Pro-life Quakers Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Feminists For Life Leftout Haven for progressive pro-life people Bound4Life Pro-Life With Christ A more traditional pro-life site, focusing on abortion. Extensive links. No Violence Period. Christlike CompassionThe Bible on the Poor Read all about it!Evangelicals For Social Action Ron Sider Turn Love Inside Out Sojourners Make Affluence History Make Poverty History The Love Alliance Resettle A holistic and realistic solution for Hurri-cane Katrina victims Katrina Grace Speak Pray for change, live for justice. God's Golden Acre South African community education. Ubuntu Education Fund for the Eastern Cape prov-ince in South Africa Oasis Trust (UK) EPath bringing aid to the homeless Justice and Compassion Amos Trust Collective Christian Aid ServLife Association for a More Just Society Shaftesbury Society One Life Revolution Debt, AIDS, Trade: Africa Save Darfur Radio Free China St. Stephen's Society Hong Kong Tear Fund The Other Journal Hauerwas and Cam-polo and Wink, oh my! John M. Perkins Foundation For Reconciliation and De-velopment Tony Campolo Center For Action and Contemplation Richard Rohr Center of Concern Unlimited Love Institute Crosswalk America The One Campaign North American Association of Christians In Social Work Social Redemption Samaritan's Purse International Relief Alliance For Children Everywhere Belmont Foundation Resources for those who have grown up without fathers Mindfully Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Opportunity International Giving the poor a working chance Inasmuch Working with the disenfranchised in Romania. Word Made Flesh Common Grace Connnecting local churches with public school kids Network 935 Phil Olsen Prevent Genocide A World At Odds Conscience in a time of terror Mercy Corps Rise Up Invisible Children Ruth's Harvest Helping impoverished children physically and spiritually Emmaus International Argos Helping the rural poor obtain land EFICOR Evangelical Fellowship of India Commision on Relief Center For Social Holiness Refugee Action Enabling Churches Serving Refugees New Sanctuary Movement Churches providing emergency shelter to marginalized peoples Be A Witness Feed the Minds Immeasurably More Organizing, equipping, and leading Christian pilgrimages around the world Global Exchange Reality Tours Christian Appalachian Project Servants Asia St. Stephens Society Hong Kong Hope HIV African orphan aid group World Off Balance Love In Action Closing the gap between resource and need Two And Two Makes Five Steven Nicholson's blog on Africa The Ruckus Society The Innocence Project Exonerating the wrongly incarcerated Advoc8, what happened to ye? Serving Our World National Coalition for the Homeless National Alliance to End Homeless-ness World Relief Hope Chest Wiser Earth "Toward a Just and Sustainable World Created by Community" Global Issues Things that affect everyone. Seek Justice Simple Gestures Love Your Neighbor 'blog Idealist Action Without Borders Christian Volunteering Interaction American Council for Voluntary In-ternatonal Action Volunteer Match Radical Activist Network Cool People Care Free World Web Charity Navigator Better World Links Wow, this "Norbert" guy puts us to shame with 30,000 links to his credit. Not "Christian" per se, and certainly more polarizingly political than we like to be, nonetheless there's some great material here. Not For SaleDespite popular belief, slavery is alive and well today--stronger than it's ever been. Nonetheless! Through heightened spiritual awareness and action, human trafficking could become a thing of the past. These friendships, coalitions and campaigns are on the front lines of bringing this dream for justice into reality. Not For Sale Campaign A coordinated effort of abolitionist groups worldwideOne Voice to End Slavery Concert to End Slavery Protest 4...a more just world. I Abolish American anti-slavery network Anti-Slavery UK abolition network International Justice Mission Working to end contem-porary slavery & sex trafficking Stop the Traffik People Shouldn't Be Bought and Sold Innocence Atlanta Erasing Hate Anti-Slavery Today's fight for tomorrow's free-dom Free The Slaves Freedom Firm The Truth Isn't Sexy Awareness cam-paign War Slavery Stop US taxpayer-assisted traffick-ing in Iraq! Commitee Contre l'Esclavage Mod-erne Coalition of Immokalee Workers Justice and Jubilee Raleigh, NC; was Opposing the Traffic TIP in Asia Asia-specific anti-trafficking coalition Amnesty International On trafficking Amazing Grace Film about William Wilberforce, 19th-century British abolitionist Not For Sale David Batstone podcast interview by Alan Jones Free At Last Deann Alford in Christianity Today Free Indeed: The Modern Church's Opportunity to End Slavery, Again Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States A report by UC Berkeley & Free the Slaves Simplicity and Holistic LivingStory of Stuff An excellent video, well worth watchingMustard Seed Associates Christine and Tom Sine Alternatives For Simple Living Bartimaeus Community Ministries A circle of mutual aid for non-traditional gospel ministry Healthy Families Mere Mission Mercola Premiere site for solid, reliable holistic health news and advice Advent Conspiracy Buy Nothing Christmas! Christianity In A Consumer Culture Conscious Consuming Body Theology Radical Frugality Ten Thousand Villages Fairly traded handicrafts from around the world. Eternal Threads Indigenous fair-traded goods made by women worldwide Radical Christian Network Co-Op America Economic action for a just planet Responsible Shopper Global re-search and action to stop corporate abuse Ministry of Money Jubilee Economics Ministries Year of Living Generously Christian Healthcare Ministries An alternative to traditional "health insurance" No Logo Global Rich List How wealthy are you? Calculate your annual income here, and put it all in perspective. Know More Corporation watch search engine Incredible, Edible SitesEat Local ChallengeSlow Food Movement (See also Slow Food USA and the Slow Food Wikipedia article) Don't Eat Alone Localvores Food Routes Mighty Foods Making a Meal of ItSecond Century Sacraments Eat Well Guide 100 Mile Diet Sustainable Table The Meatrix Food & Water Watch Oldways Organic Consumers Association Community Alliance with Family Farmers Makers Diet Finding Balance Eating, Image, and Life Organic.org True Food Network Calling attention to ge-netically modified foods Slow Food Nation Chow Culinate Wild Fermentation The Ecological Farming Association Local Harvest Bread For The World Heifer International "Ending hunger, Caring for the earth" Ethicurean Food First Organic A to Z Organic Schmorganic Real Food Markets Center for Rural America Edible Communities ZAO Water Artesian well in North Carolina helping drill wells in developing nations Factory Farm Michael Pollan Real Food Revival Food for Thought Foodshed Planet Getcha Grub On True Food Cricket Bread An Obsession with Food Something In Season U.S. Food Policy DevelopmentAs we are called to be the church incarnated in community, many of us are realizing that there are practical as well as spiritual dimensions to being healthy community. Here are some of the best sites looking at community and economic development from a transformational perspective. Bartimaeus Community Ministries A circle of mutual aid for non-traditional gospel ministryChristians Supporting Community Organizing Integral Mission Micah Network Missions Moving Mountains Discipling For Development Christian Community Development Association Agora Space Floresta The John M. Perkins Foundation MEDA Microfinance Kiva Microloans that change lives Right Reality Compassionate and productive business Good Capital Business as Mission Net-work Transformation Business Network Por-tal Business Without Borders GlobalServe Business Network Aquila Network Global Social Venture Competition Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards Collective Intelligence Xigi Investing in good Habitat For Humanity 7 Loaves Fair Trade Wholesale Initiatives Fair Trade Federation Fair Trade USA (See also their blog) Traid Craft UK Trade As One Make Trade Fair Equal Exchange Justice Company Cred Jewellery No blood diamonds here The Alternative Gift Catalogue UK Higher Grounds Trading A 100% fair trade, organic, fair trade company Saint's Coffee Sustainablog Waves Community Development Re-sources Blessed Unrest An amazing book by Paul Hawken, with additiona resources Casa Maria's Boycott List Okay, this is depressing...but here's where a lot of our purchases go. The Creation In ChristThankfully, the "disposable earth" mindset (that had more to do with Western con-sumerism than authentic Christian faith) is disappearing, as believers are realizing that whether Jesus is returning next Thursday or not, He wants us to cherish and steward His Creation. Here are some of the lamentably few folks who are offering Christ-centered reflection on environmental problems and solutions. A Rocha Christians In ConservationAu Sable Institute of Environmental Studies Christian Environmental Association Christian Ecology Link small(er) "Making an impact by leaving less of one" Restoring Eden Christians For Environ-mental Stewardship North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecol-ogy Better Times Sustainable, Simple, & Frugal Living |