Jesus is bringing together his crew and sending them to get in good trouble. Familiar tales, sure. But is there something about how Jesus organizes, how Jesus relates, and how Jesus teaches that is instinctively anarchist? Teaching after teaching and tale after tale, he's challenging all the fixations that oppressors leverage into fear to secure power. And oppression, I heard a fella say, is the mask of fear.

Episode highlights:

• Christian anarchism as a practice and a hermeneutic,
• the subversive aspects of Jesus' commissioning the twelve,
• the hidden edge of some of Jesus' spiciest sayings,
• Amish wisdom fist-bumping anarchism

Our guest cohost is Rev. Terry Stokes (he/they). Rev. Stokes is an anarchist theologian who seeks to foster political and spiritual radicalization through his writing and speaking.

He holds degrees from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a minister of word and sacrament by Park Avenue Baptist Church, an abolitionist congregation on Mvskoke Land (Atlanta, GA).

He lives on Munsee Lenape land (central NJ), where he works with children and youth as a nonprofit director.

Their new book, Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People, is available now.

More about Terry:

• www.terryjstokes.com
• IG: @anarchyterry
• Book: Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People

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