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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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Conspire Issue 2: Sacred Subversions

by Various Contributors

Do It Yourself, Spiritual Practices, Books, Conspire

Poet Wendell Berry’s famous mad farmer urges us: “So friends, every day, do something / that won’t compute. Love the Lord.  / Love the world. Work for nothing. / Take all that you have and be poor.”  This issue of Consp!re focuses on such creativity—small and large actions that work to overturn business as usual and open brilliant windows onto the crazy, grace-filled reign of God. Some of those actions require community; others are individual attempts. You’ll find stories and struggles of living the revolutionary word of Jesus, which intends to reshape our earth, our economy, every human heart, and the entire web of human relationships.  It means no less than to turn the world.

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Conspire Issue 4: Becoming Fire

by Various Contributors

Prayer, Books, Conspire

Teach us to pray. Followers of Jesus have been making that request for a couple of millennia now.  The question of prayer—what is it, what it means, how and why we do it—has resulted in a dizzying array of ideas, forms, and practices. This issue of Conspire probes prayer in an age of consumerism and distraction. What unique stresses do our frenetic pace, relative global affluence, and access to technology place on our prayer life? What prayer practices might ground us and our communities? What are our prayer blasphemies and deepest doubts?

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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.