kingdom praxis | a.k.a. eliacín’s blog

From Jason Evans at The Ecclesia Collective
Friends,
As many of you know, many of us in our community have been feeding the volunteers collecting donations at the Chicano Park donation drop point.
Yesterday, our group of primarily gringos experienced some resistance to serving the primarily Latino volunteers. We came to find out that earlier in the day, [...]

Some of you are aware of the fantastic Greenbelt Festival in the UK. For the past months I’ve been part of the planning for something similar here in North America. A group of us have put together a survey in a way to listen to wider range of important diverse voices as we continue with [...]

As Andrew Jones mentioned on one of his recent posts on his blog, us here in the Mustard Seed House are in conversations about monastic orders and what/how that would look in our urban context here in Seattle and on what will be in the future a Celtic flavored new monastic retreat/intentional rural [...]

Life & Debt - Blue Scholars
Listen
I like… making you so happy!
Yo, life and debt, light a cigarette smoke the stress,
take a deep breath baby, let’s rearrange the mess we’ve inherited
Alienated from what is rightfully yours in my land
is life, money is time paid for labor
Working eight to five, sometimes six seven eight
we come home [...]

Instead of playing the wink’em game and doing another book report (oh… you know what I’m talking about), why not pay attention to what the Emerging World has to tell us?
World Social Forum
More news of hope and transformation from the past US Social Forum - This is what happens when people in the USA [...]

House Concert with Tracy Howe of the Restoration Village

Host: Mustard Seed Associates
When? Saturday, November 3, 2007 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Where? Shafer-Baillie Mansion 907 14th Ave E Seattle, WA
Contact: mail@msainfo.org

Description:
Come for a concert at the Shafer Baillie Mansion in Capitol Hill to benefit Mustard Seed Associates and the Restoration Village.
Suggested donation: $10

About Tracy Howe and the [...]

The Other Journal in their new adventure with Mars Hill Graduate School just launched their new prettyful website.
The Other Journal :: An Intersection of Theology and Culture
And just like every other emerging-postmodern-church related blog and website out there they have a review on Brian McLaren’s new book among other interesting articles.

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7 Loving Challenges for Emergent via Mark Van Steenwyk

We should be careful not to draw lines in the sand–even if “they” drew it first.  We should always be VERY careful when we use us versus them language–especially within the Body of Christ. Within the emerging church, I’ve found many folks who, while [...]

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Autogestión is a form of workplace decision-making in which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer care, general production methods, scheduling, division of labour etc.) instead of the traditional authoritative supervisor telling workers what to do, how to do it and where to do it. Examples of such self-management include the Spanish [...]