So I've been thinking about launching a website that I could start a grassroots zine out of. The "Coup" [koo'] has been a zine idea since last Christmas. When I had a large creative think tank of friends hanging out with me, all of our creative idea's spurring on other ideas. It was going to be great. A quarterly print issue that would be putting a fire under the butt of sleeping revolutionaries. The believing and non believing generation who would soon be awakening to the reality of the call of Jesus; that this zine could be a resource to seeing them activated and alive. This was an exciting idea, but things didn't wind up falling together in such a timely manner. I hosted writers to be putting articles together about what the Church looks like in the Bible, how we can live that out, and also giving snapshots of what that living organism of a Church would look like all over the world. But some of them wound up backing out, or not submitting pieces. And I definitely didn't want to be the only person writing articles, because it was supposed to be a collaboration, not a long single perspective editorial. We had artists submitting cover art, and photo's starting to flow. But what can I say? When your full-time school, part-time work, and living in community with bro's who need some discipleship, its hard to sqeeze in working on producing a full-blown zine, but thats life...and thats art.
Yet a few days ago I had a conversation with a friend from Switzerland Michi Grassli. this guy and his friends taught me so much about what it looks like live out the organism of the Church when I was traveling through Switzerland. They had a large community house in the Alps where loads of people would come, stay, and get unhooked from drugs and/or find Jesus. As I shared with Michi about this idea on my heart about the e-zine website, he shared that he was doing something similar in Switzerland, and I asked him if he would like to write an article for the German speaking demographic, that we could have translated into english to premier in our Zine. So hopefully something really neat is going to begin breaking up with the e-zine and some international co-op.