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

I met Eugene Cho about 2 years ago at lunch at the Mustard Seed House. What struck me about Eugene was his open and honest approach to ministry and how that tend to affect family life. Recently Eugene and his wife Minhee, began a non-profit/non-religious grassroots humanitarian organization with the vision of joining others to fight extreme global poverty. 
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I’ve always been drawn to the underdogs, the raggamuffins, the workers and the unassuming simple people. Perhaps because of my own family history. I grew up in a working barrio in Puerto Rico. My family life was simple, but not the voluntary simplicity option of the middle class, but the un-voluntary simplicity of the [...]

Homegrown Evolution

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Salvador Allende, was born in June 26, 1908. He was the first Marxist leader of a nation (Chile) to gain power through democratic process. Allende was murder on September 11, 1973 by the Pinochet lead coup d’teat supported by the CIA.

“¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el pueblo! ¡Vivan los trabajadores!”
(”Long live Chile! Long live the people! [...]

No Controles

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This comes from my friend Eugene Cho
using facebook to fight global poverty
After mocking social networking sites for awhile, I finally joined Facebook one year ago. And while there are still some things that I strongly dislike about Facebook [e.g. constant invitations to Applications], I am a big fan. It works. I’ve [...]

I don’t want to hear about your movement or buzz, if it does not move people to love and to live alternatively. Show me your love and compassion, not your books and blogs.
 “I don’t want to hear your philosophy if it doesn’t grow corn.”  - Anishnaabee saying
 ”Si tu revolución no sabe bailar, no me invites [...]

Gabrielito is my 18 month old son. He was born on Christmas Day 2006. He was born with a respiratory problem and had to be resucitated at the moment of birth and was taken by ambulance to the NICU at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. An unforgetful moment.
Last night we had another tense parent episode. He [...]

I’m looking forward the release of this project. Some good friends of mine will be part of this inspiring and important film

 
The Ordinary Radicals

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I first encounter one of Swoon’s street art pieces in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2003. Since then I’ve been a big fan.

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