Over the years I’ve started various small projects and engaged with others on social media in an effort to share resources, ideas, and actions. With Jubilee Praxis, I’m trying to bring all that together to one simple place where I can share and stay in touch and I’m also taking this opportunity to exit Meta’s social platforms and stop helping them get richer and more influential.

Here, I hope to give a window into what I’m thinking about, provide resources, recommend books, discuss current events, highlight political action steps, analyze media, commemorate historical figures and movements, and reflect on what it looks like to experimentally practice life individually and community that prepares for and reflects a world yet to come.

What’s with the name?

Why Jubilee? It's a concept from Hebrew scripture and from Jesus. After every seven cycles of seven years, God's instruction to Israel was for a great leveling. Debts were to be canceled, slaves were to be freed, and land was to be redistributed away from those who had gathered up more, back to an equal distribution in which every family had land. The land and its laborers were to have an opportunity to rest and recover. When Jesus comes, he declares a central part of his work is to declare "the year of the Lord's favor” or Jubilee, which had not been fully practiced by Israel as intended. Much of his preaching and the practice of the early church community that was formed by it are focused on the rearrangement of socioeconomic relationships into new egalitarian arrangements that give the dignity, inclusion, and rest to all which is pointed to in the Jubilee. This rearrangement, seeds of which were planted by Jesus, is a work that those who follow him now are meant to continue, and is a foretaste of the society that will be shaped in this world when Jesus returns and mend all things. All of life, in my view, ought to be aimed towards the efforts of collective care, collective survival, and re-imagination of community, household, economics, and social structures implicit in the Jubilee and the teachings of Jesus.

Praxis is fairly simple. It's a word that means practice, habit, or practical application of learning. My hope is that what I write on and what we discuss together here is simple and relevant for living life together in the 21st Century that anticipates Jubilee.

What can the reader expect from Jubilee Praxis?

• Short, simple, accessible

• Roughly weekly main posts (probably)

• Posts emailed to those who subscribe, and archive at jubileepraxis.beehiiv.com

• Ability to discuss together, respectfully in comments

• A few varied small segments in each post, as wide-ranging as:

  • Ideas for knowing and caring for neighbors (and what I’m trying out)

  • Thoughts on experimenting in mutual aid, meeting needs and sharing skills in a network

  • Takes on current events, politics, and culture

  • Takes on scripture passages, especially through an anarchist lens

  • Book recommendations and other media

  • Personal updates (including what my cat is getting up to)

  • Highlighted political action steps

  • Snapshots of the lives of historical figures (like I’ve previously done with Disciples of the Day)

I hope you’ll subscribe and keep connecting!