If you have been at all involved in the issues around mountaintop removal, you have probably heard the name Larry Gibson. Larry has been a tireless fighter for the rights of Appalachians and for the environment that affects us all.
Tonight, Larry was featured as a CNN Hero: Check it out
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.