Monthly Archives: January 2009

sound bites of life on 2009-01-21

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  • You mean USAmerican, right? Because Americans are all those born In the Americas. Watch out for your imperial language. #
  • @MHMorgan that would means Mexico as well. #
  • Bean soup and remembering Dr. King at The Mustard Seed House. #
  • Now, how much racial diversity is represented in your inaguration party? #
  • Very foggy in Seattle make me think of old movies about London and Jack the Ripper. #
  • Purposefully embracing the margins. #
  • @Brittian great day to start the day. Now you need some Susana Bacca for a soft and soulful way to end it. #
  • @jonmadison now is that the same Café Rico everyone drink in Puerto Rico? #
  • @jonmadison I might be wrong but I think I might have seen some at a market in aurora. #
  • The Common Root 09: creating our future in the shadow of Empire — http://tinyurl.com/7puytk #
  • @jakebouma la picará serpiente. #
  • Justice at Christ’s Table http://tinyurl.com/75f4l4 #
  • “This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.” Who’s us this? us or US? #
  • RT @amnesty: What Obama’s Presidency Doesn’t Say About Race http://tinyurl.com/6v72dt #
  • isn’t it pride the original sin? a sanitized history and short collective memory follows it very close. #

The Common Root 09: creating our future in the shadow of Empire

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The Common Root 09 is three weeks away. There is still plenty of room for registrations. This is a labor of love: we’ve worked hard to get great speakers and workshop leaders to come help us to pursue the shalom of Christ in the shadow of empire. We’ve kept costs as low as possible so that individuals and groups can come paying whatever they’re able (you can set your own registration price). The price is right. The speakers are awesome. The sessions are timely.

Register online At the Common Root 2009, we’ll explore ways of creatively embracing the in-breaking Kingdom of God in the shadow of Empire. We want to foster creative resistance as we seek community practices that bring shalom to a broken world.


Schedule:

Friday, February 13

1:00-4:00pm     Registration
4:00-4:20pm     Introduction
4:20-5:30pm     Main Session with Tom and Christine Sine (join the conspiracy…creating the future one mustard seed at a time)

Dinner Break

7:30-9:00pm      Workshops

  1. Christine Sine: creating spiritual practices for lives and communities at the margins of the empire
  2. Tom Sine: creating new communities of sustainability, subversion, and celebration in the shadow of the imperial mall
  3. Jeff Wright: Cultivating Urban Kingdom Communities, pt 1 (planter’s track)
  4. Tanden and Erin Brekke: Resisting the Evil of Racism–Confronting Racism from a White Perspective

Saturday, February 14

9:00-10:30am    Workshops

  1. Greg Boyd: Jesus as Socio-Political Revolutionary
  2. Jeff Wright: Cultivating Urban Kingdom Communities, pt 2 (planter’s track)
  3. TBA: Practicing Hospitality in an Inhospitable Land
  4. Brandon Rhodes: Seeking Shalom in the Rubble of Empire

10:30-11:45       Main Session with Greg Boyd (The Rise of a New Kingdom Movement)

Lunch Break

1:45-3:00pm: Main Session with Carol Rose (Jesus roots, Peace fruits or Kudzu for Christ)

3:00-4:30pm: Workshops

  1. Jin Kim: Christian Leadership in a Multicultural World
  2. Carol Rose: Peacemaker Communities in Practice
  3. Jeff Wright: Cultivating Urban Kingdom Communities, pt 3 (planter’s track)
  4. Mark Van Steenwyk: Punks, New Monks, and Radicals–what we can learn from the “New Monasticism”

4:30-6:00pm: Main Session with Jin Kim (Revisioning the Beloved Community in the Age of Obama)

Closing and Dinner: We encourage folks to go out to dinner together in small groups to debrief and continue the conversation on their own.

More info 

Dear church: “get yo’ monk on with your Anabaptist self”

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This comes from my anabaptist monk friend from down under, Jarrod McKenna.

It’s being called “New Monasticism”, “The Anabaptist Conspirators”, “The Emerging Peace Church Movement”, “The Anabaptist Impulse”, “Submergent” and “The Common Root”. What is it? Well some like Tom Sine are suggesting it’s not just a faddish recovery of things lying dormant in the evangelical shadow-side of things shunned, rather a movement of the Holy Spirit. A movement of people seeking more authentic and transformative communal lives that witness to God’s new world of justice, peace and joy breaking into history in Jesus. And in the gentle strength of meekness they care calling to ‘the church at large’ to recover the deep histories of Christ-like communal witness that lay dormant in church history. (aka “get yo’ monk on with your Anabaptist self”)

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sound bites of life on 2009-01-20

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  • Had a fantastic daughter and father day at the MLK march. #
  • Catie is still chanting: “Obama escucha estamos en la lucha.” #
  • Just thinking on how Evo Morales was swore in wearing Bolivian indigenous clothes. #
  • G_d bless the whole world. #
  • @spiritfarmer me wanna know what are you getting? #
  • Maybe going out for coffee-fi work session and keep working on personal unschool for formation. #
  • @wendycooper we still have some xmas wrapped gifts to send to my family. So you are not that late. #