I am a founding member of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace) and general editor of the Jesus Manifesto (a webzine that explores the way of Jesus in the shadow of the Empire).

I am a writer, speaker (contact me if you would like me to come to your event), and grassroots educator (which means that I try to mess with people’s thinking, but usually outside of an institutional setting…though I do some adjunct work with Bethel University).

I have also started a network called Christarchy! that exists to help people form small groups to discuss and implement the sorts of ideas presented at Jesus Manifesto and embodied by Missio Dei.

I also conspire with emerging Anabaptists (and anabaptistic emergents) through Submergent, a network of leaders who, informed by an Anabaptist vision, are living into the Kingdom of God in a postmodern, post-colonial, post-Christian world. Together, we will re-baptize the Christian imagination!

I have been married to Amy since 1997. We, along with our son Jonas, live with a random assortment of friends in South Minneapolis.