Mark Van Steenwyk

In 2003, Mark co-founded Missio Dei (a Christian intentional community in Minneapolis), where he still resides. Missio Dei is affiliated with the Mennonite Church USA and is committed to hospitality, simplicity, prayer, peacemaking, and resistance. 

Mark is the general editor of JesusRadicals.com (a webzine exploring the intersection of Chrsitianity and anarchism with over 100,000 monthly visits). He is also the producer and co-host of the Iconocast (podcast), having interviewed James Cone, Waziyatawin, Cornell West, Stanley Hauerwas, Starhawk, John Dear, Rita Nakashima Brock, and more. He is also developing a video web series called the Revolutionary Table.

Mark has contributed to several books (such as the Missio Dei Breviary, Viral Hope, Banned Questions about Jesus, Forming Christian Habits in Post-Christendom, and Widening the Circle) and has been quoted widely. He is currently working on several writing projects, including the book Repenting of Christianity.

Mark has led retreats, facilitated workshops, presented at conferences, and taught several seminary courses. He is currently working on an alternative theological educational project (the Rootworks). With the support of the Central Plains Mennonite Conference, Mark has nurtured and networked with groups around North America that are exploring the radical implications of Jesus' life and teaching. 

If you would like to invite Mark to visit your community or speak at your event, please email him at markvans [at] gmail.com or via the "contact" link below.  

Updates

  • I've been sick in bed almost all day. And it looks Jonas might be sick. Growing up, my mother would give me 7up when I was sick. These days, I find that my go-to sickness snack is gummies and herbal tea. What do you eat or drink when you're sick?
    47 hours ago
  • Whoa! I just learned that Martin Scorsese will be adapting Shusaku Endo's masterpiece "Silence" into a film. I'm excited...it is one of my favorite books. The film will apparently star Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio del Toro. Awesome.
    5 days ago
  • “Marxism criticizes and tries to change the economic structure; monasticism criticizes and tries to change people’s consciousness. While Marxism is concerned with externals, monastic criticism is concerned with the inner attitude." Thomas Merton
    7 days ago
  • I'm realizing (largely due to the insistence of a friend) that I am an Enneagram 4 with a 3 wing, not an Enneagram 3 with a 4 wing. I wonder what my Enneagram-knowledgeable friends think. Joanna? Sarah? Sue? What say you?
    8 days ago
  • Do you know why leftists only drink herbal tea? Because proper tea is theft.
    10 days ago
  • Who knew? Influential German anarchist Gustav Landauer's grandson is Mike Nichols, director of "The Graduate."
    11 days ago
  • Ok. I'm trying to work on my book but could use help engaging some ideas. Any anarchist/mystic/liberatonist types out there got a few minutes for a skype or google hangout session?
    11 days ago
  • Just a slight pet peeve, but "imperial" and "empirical" are two very different ideas. It is amazing how often I hear folks use the latter when they mean the former. #languagepolice
    11 days ago
  • "Hope is [our] answer to God's silence." - Jacques Ellul
    2 weeks ago
  • Paulo Freire on charity: "In order to have the continued opportunity to express their 'generosity,' the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. An unjust social order is the permanent found of this 'generosity,' which is nourished by death, despair, and poverty...True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity."
    2 weeks ago
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