Geez: culture jamming, just like Jesus

by Christina Crook

AIDEN ENNS, publisher of Geez magazine, presented a seminar at the Canadian Youth Workers Conference (CYWC), entitled ‘Make Affluence History: pursuing a gospel that is inwardly rich and outwardly just.’

He came with his crazy little booth in the exhibition space. While most booth displays were eight feet high, his was seven inches tall. Here he gave away miniature (one inch wide) ‘magazines.’

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Holy mischief

by Caley Moore

Two years ago, a pair of Winnipeggers launched Geez magazine. Their subversive take on Christianity is gaining popularity. This article appeared in the United Church Observer, Nov. 2007.

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Christian quarterly a winner -- Geez!

by Brenda Suderman — Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Winnipeg Free Press — Sometimes there’s a small reward or two on Earth for making a bit of heavenly mischief. Geez magazine, the Winnipeg-based Christian activism quarterly, won three honours recently at the Western Canadian Magazine Awards, gaining recognition for its unique combination of satire, critique, social consciousness, and just plain quirkiness.

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Weekend National Post Saturday, July 14, 2007

Rare is the religious magazine whose presentation could be called intriguing.

Behold Geez, which recently scooped the Best New Publication and Magazine of the Year at last month’s Western Magazine Awards.

Conceived by former Adbusters editor Aiden Enns, its mission is to “untangle the narrative of faith from the fundamentalists, pious self-helpers and religio-profiteers.” Geez!

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Geez magazine takes a plunge into the rhetoric of social justice

by Andrew Siebert — ChristianWeek March, 2007

WINNIPEG, MB — Is there such a thing as holy mischief? We may not know what that means exactly, but more and more folks concerned about social justice and a redefinition about what it means to be spiritual — or even Christian — are picking up copies of the new Geez magazine, produced in Winnipeg by Mennonite editors Will Braun and Aiden Enns.

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