A new evangelical movement offers lessons for the left.Bell and Claiborne are two of the better-known young voices of a broad, explicitly nonviolent, anti-imperialist and anticapitalist theology that is surging at the heart of white, suburban Evangelical Christianity. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3061/preaching_revolution/

About the Edmund Rice Centre The Edmund Rice Centre is involved in a range of projects and activities across the four areas of its operation in research, community education, advocacy and networking. The Centre’s objectives are to: Conduct and encourage research into the causes of poverty and inequity in society, especially with regard to youth […]

‘Love Your Neighbour’ is an emerging partnership network focusing churches and parachurch organisations on the importance of church-driven, community-based evangelism for the health of the local church and the transformation of our communities. http://www.loveyourneighbour.org.nz/?sid=1

Pace e Bene Australia was established in early 2006 as an associated body to Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service. Pace e Bene Australia exists to further the growth and expansion of a spirituality of active nonviolence in Australia. We intend to do this by * Developing a community of people committed to the growth and […]

The EPYC – ‘Empowering Peacemakers in Your Community’ – team:  explore themes of nonviolence education (not merely as a tactic of social change, but as a chosen lifestyle); explore personal, ecological and social justice concerns; and offer a “spirituality of engagement,” ( not escapism), to meet our world’s needs in transformative ways People are starting […]

This domain name was donated to us by the lovely people at HolonCom. They registered wecan.be and had a holding page which read We believe www.wecan.be offers endless possibilities for a creative and meaningfull site, but sadely enough we are currently occupied with other priorities. When we explained our idea, they let us have it […]

TEAR Australia is a movement of Australian Christians who are responding to the needs of poor communities around the world. Priority is given to supporting programs that strive to involve the most marginalized and exploited members of each community, regardless of their religious or political beliefs. State based activities and gatherings are organised by educators […]

Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down —Oscar Romero I have never met anyone who told me they were with the “Jesus Radicals”, but […]

“The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.” This site and this one carry more information on the movement. The Catholic Workers I knew ran a fantastic, shared, inner city house whose door was always open, […]

::Site Sponsor:: If you want to “Be with the poor” in more then just spirit, you want to check out (and maybe join or support) Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor. Servants is “a network of Christian teams living and working amongst the urban poor in Asia’s mega cities, participating with the poor to bring hope […]

::Site Sponsors:: “The Waiters Union is a network of residents in West End (Brisbane, Australia) who are committed to developing a sense of community in the locality . . .” and trying out the be.attitudes. The Waiters have been a supportive, formative and transformative social space for lots of folk. Dave Andrews has lived there […]

the people that be will overcome the powers that be. our power is in community, creativity, and peace. this website, this idea, was already the product of dozens of people before it was even launched. as more of us commit to changing their own lives in order to change the world, we will find community, […]