Love it, and hope to see more like this!

I look forward to seeing if I got the crossword right ;)

Love it, and hope to see more like this!

I look forward to seeing if I got the crossword right ;)

Awesome to see this again, and nice work with the design.

One note on the PDF: The heading font hasn't been properly embedded. If this is because the font refuses to be embedded due to copyright issues, you can "Create Outlines" in InDesign and turn the headings into (undeditable) vectors which can be properly embedded and look just the same.

If we could get hold of a fixed PDF, we could print some here in Welly and distribute.

xox
Torrance

Great design, great contents, but what about some more in depth stuff about this christian anarchism? It still seems like a contradictionin terms for me. Now, that doesnt mean I necessarily reject it, becos a lot of stuff only works becos of its inbuilt contradictions. Go Hybrids!

But is christian anarchism supposedly anarchist because the state is rejected, or because unaccountable authority is rejected? I'm the latter sort of anarchist, For me the state is just the largest and most harmful of the many forms of unaccountable authority. Though at times neo-liberal markets and corporate-official neo-fascisms are the closest and most harmful of the apparatus of state.

But if I lived in a more religious society, I think I'd find religious authority more harmful, because its essentially unaccountable. Work and pray, live on hay, therell be pie, in the sky, when you die. On the other hand, I greatly admire the Ploughshares activists and are more than happy to contribute to that cause. I guess thats because they dont preach about the source of their ethics, and the effect of their ethics seems to overlap with mine with a very close fit.

Nonetheless, Jesus seems like a rather unaccountable authority. So I wonder how any anarchist can reject the state but accept an even more distant and one-way form of authority?

Still, that raises the question of where ethics, and particularly anarchist ethics, come from ...

maybe more on this topic in next issue?

cheers
Steve L

you should go to the upcoming christian anarchist conference in chritstchurch and see for youself.

btw chavez is christian and so where the sandanistas' (not that they were anarchist.. but showing that revolution and religion need not be opposite)

Hi, Sorry I didn't upload the publishing PDF to keep it smaller sized.

If you want to print this Zine out, please email me at media (at) ndu.org.nz for a print copy.

Cheers

One of the intetresting bits for me about the Christians was the thinking about how everyone is capable of exerting authority, but has to choose not to do so. They cite a passage in the bible (Samuel I, I think) about God telling the Israelites, who are calling for a king to be chosen, about how bloody awful kings are, but allowing them to make their own decision (which goes against God's opinion) on the matter.

Obviously, (if you believe in it) a god has unaccountable authority, but if they choose not to use their (potential) authority, what's the problem?

Cheers

Sam Buchanan