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global meltdown: what's in 'your' urban saint survival toolkit?

Feature Post: In this Scotland's 'Year of homecoming'  I'm using me blog to look at what's a happening around a scotland coming out of the mists of an auld world - a world where christianity was in bed with empire - into raging economic meltdown (thaw?).  Can this christianity be rehabilitated in time? it has a crackin story! can it be unfrozen from its entombment to stand before world empires in its robes of comedy and humanity?  

To kick off, here are 3 things we lost under the snow that are erupting all over the world right as acts of defiance and tools of resistance to empire in a global age:   1. outrageous prayer, 2.  gift-economy and 3. imaginative comic non-violent guerilla action... ring any bells with an ancient near east movement sparked off by a young activist called Jesus and brutally put down by the empire of their day?  check it oot!..

Protest 2.0: G20 Protest gets twittered

As world leaders head for London's G20 summit this year, twitter is finding new use among protesters: here are some Tweets collected on my iphone:

"Very good day with positive (and light) police presence" - sierrakim

"It's the end of the world as we know it ... and I feel cross" - chrisjords 

"This is the beginning of the fight for the next 20 years...neo-liberal capitalism is on it's knees and we must kill it off" - Mark Thomas

• Here are some G20 protest pics
• The Guardian's: Matthew Weaver gives us a live report using audioboo (audioblogging) here 
• Uk tech crunch reports on megamouth shouting out your 'tweets' as they come in- calling it protest 2.0
• Numbers: police estimates: 35,000 (bbc), protestor estimates (twitter): 50,000
• I'll be blogging on role of twitter in protest like as we approach G20 summitt on 2nd April

In meantime, why not catch up on latest tweets reporting from the rally, yourself: make sure to include the tag '#G20rally' somewhere in your tweet. That way it gets grouped together with everything that others are writing about these 'Put People First' rallys. 

For more info about how to setup twitter and report live from the event using it and your phone: go here 

rewind: christianity in Scotland: where next?

rewinding to 2007: christianity in Scotland: where next?  part 1 and part 2- I still agree with most but not sure I would word it quite like that now... an awful lot has happened since 2007;  a different feel to things now.  There's much more of a movement of saints and activists busy engaging on the ground; so many good people and projects around here now- and even more now since the extreme forms of capitalism (economic form of empire) have hit the wall and are being unmasked for what they are.   I'm feeling a heck of a lot more positive about stuff now - happy! 

global meltdown: abyss opening or heaven coming down?

A series of ecological, economic and political shocks are rocking the world.    

Although the current crises are dreadful - they may be waking many up to the fact that 'empire' (economic or otherwise) may not be an inevitable 'way' of securing our future as we used to think - and that this reality shock could open up some amazing possibilites. 

global economic breakdown or breaththrough?

Breakthrough? Could this crisis - apart from scaring the heck out of everyone- also stir up and empower a new level of movement - where more activists, artists and saints - instead of shutting down (no money) get even more released, more project supporters and angels start taking pity on their cities - being enraged and alarmed enough to get out of their comfort zones and work together across denominational, industrial, cultural and political lines to take on some of its giants.   

what if it kickstarts a revolution of engagement with creative justice art and animate non-violent resistance to the forces of empire ..