Join Radical Living and friends at 614 Marcy Avenue (Services for the Underserved-Marcy/Hart House) for a screening of the film Pray with Africa. The event takes place on Wednesday, October 21st at 7pm. To learn more, visit the website at www.praywithafrica.com.

Here’s a blurb from the filmmakers:

“Pray With Africa is a viral movement to inspire people to connect across continents, to pray each other’s prayers, and to put those prayers into action. It is about building relationships and bridges between here and there and changing the world through prayer. Their hope is to inspire millions of people to pray together harnessing not only the immense power of prayer but also the immense power of a worldwide community working together to make a difference.

“There are already plenty of people around the world doing that very thing. Instead, Pray With Africa is asking people to pray with Africa—to be in relationship with others across the world and, through those relationships, change the world for the better.”

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(Freedom Rides begin May 4, 1961.)

Last Monday Congressman John Lewis, who participated in the Freedom Rides to desegregate the South, was arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy for protesting the genocide in Darfur. While in D.C. last Sunday, the day before his arrest, a couple of us from Radical Living were blessed to hear Mr. Lewis speak at Shiloh Baptist Church for the kick-off to Sojo’s Mobilization to End Poverty. It was amazing to be in the presence of a man who continues to witness against injustice through word and action.

On Friday, May 1st at 7 p.m. join Radical Living for an evening of conversation with Missio Dei’s founder and fellow communitarian Mark Van Steenwyk. Mark is a Mennonite pastor, editor of the web zine Jesus Manifesto, and founder of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace). Missio Dei is affiliated with the Mennonite Church USA and the Baptist General Conference. The evening will be an informal time of sharing stories and experiences about new monasticism, intentional communities and radical discipleship.

The gathering will be held at Radical Living’s Marcy House, located at 622 Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Take the G train to Myrtle-Willoughby, exit the station, cross the street and walk down Marcy Avenue for three blocks. The house is located on the corner of Hart and Marcy. Enter the gate and walk up the stairs.

Here’s a link to our fourth and most recent edition of Agape Times, the quarterly e-zine of Radical Living. In it you will find articles about Christian living, faith and politics, intentional communities, and more.

Check out our recently updated ONLINE CALENDAR to find out when we are hosting gatherings. If it’s posted on the calendar, you’re invited!

RHYTHM

Weekly gatherings:

• Common meal is at Hart House every Wednesday at 7 p.m.
  o    Bible Study/Reflection is at Hart House every Wednesday, following dinner, from 8-9 p.m.
• Common meal (followed by worship) every Friday at 7 p.m. at Marcy House.
• Prayer breakfast every Friday morning at Pulaski from 7-8 a.m.

Monthly gatherings:

• Eat the Book! is the first Monday of every month at 7 p.m. at Pulaski House.
• Potluck is the second Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. Location TBA.
• New York Faith & Justice’s Brooklyn borough meeting is the first Saturday of the month from 1-3 p.m. in the Hart House penthouse.
• Vigil on Varick Street is the second Friday of the month at 7 p.m. Join us as we stand in solidarity for the prisoners, immigrants and detainees imprisoned at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at  201 Varick Street, Manhattan.

Radical Living is hosting Andrew McLeod, author of Holy Cooperation: Building Graceful Economies, Wipf & Stock Publishers, on the New York stop of his national book tour. McLeod’s debut book explores the intersection between Christian teachings and cooperative economics. His thesis: The first followers of Jesus created a social structure based on democratic control of their collective resources, which were shared freely and voluntarily.

This style of organizing can also be found in the modern cooperative movement, which is made up of thousands of democratically controlled businesses serving millions of members worldwide. This movement touches the lives of nearly half of Americans, and has grown into a comprehensive economic system in other parts of the world.

This presentation will include concrete examples of how we can get beyond addressing symptoms of injustice and build a new economy with justice and liberty at its core.

Andrew works all over the West Coast through a couple of nonprofit agencies, the California Center for Cooperative Development and Northwest Cooperative Development Center.

What: Andrew McLeod discussing his new book, Holy Cooperation!
When: Wednesday, January 14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Pulaski House, 38 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn

Check out this provocative post on God’s Politics written by two dear friends of Radical Living.

CALL + RESPONSE, the groundbreaking rockumentary addressing human trafficking, will be in NYC from December 4th – 14th. Help host a screening by bringing all your friends to a show and email Alissa Moore at respondnyc@gmail.com to get involved. Tickets are $15 a piece or $12.50 for students or groups of 10 or more. Buy tickets at the Tribeca Cinema website or the Call + Response website: http://www.tribecacinemas.com/. Tickets are limited so please purchase in advance!