#david janzen

[funeral]

David Janzen, The Violent Gift: Trauma's Subversion of the Deuteronomistic History's Narrative

[averybeautifullaundromat]

(David Janzen)

Data sonification of oil extracted from the Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada (January 1986 - January 2015):

Extraction (right speaker; in 1000s Cubic Metres) Capital (left speaker; $ Barrel)

Developed during a residency at the Banff Research in Culture program (Banff, Canada; 2015).

[communioncommunitycreation]

​In their foreword to David Janzen's handbook on Intentional Christian Community, Shane Claibourne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove—both men that have lived in ICC—write that

As we've shared the good news that we've seen and heard through these little experiments in the truth of the gospel, we've met thousands of other people who are asking the same question, hearing the same call—the call to follow Jesus into a life of discipleship in community. Seeing in their eyes a look that we recognize from those small circles of friends, we have recognized our common cause in a movement of the Holy Spirit.

I know that look. I also know that if some of us here ever met, we too might share that tiny glimmer.

[discerningacall]

We believe that Christian intentional community is a support group for recovering hypocrites who discover by living together the great chasm between what we know and how we live--and find out that we are loved anyway.

The Intentional Christian Community Handbook: For Idealists, Hypocrites, and Wannabe Disciples of Jesus, by David Janzen (pg. 4)

[slowartday-blog]

David Janzen, Exshaw Lumber Pile, Oil on Canvas, 2011