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

My friend Jess have a very insighful and challenging post about what hospitality means. She does it in the context for the Mennonite Church, but it is certainly a concept we should all explore and live.
RedOracle: Postmodern hospitality
This leads me to think about hospitality…how are we, as individual followers of Christ and together as a [...]

Warning - Very long post ahead
After months of planning and many online conversations, 10 rabble rousers got together this past weekend in Philadelphia to dream, dialogue and conspire about the next steps Submergent should take. Many others were invited, but couldn’t make it to the gathering - so no, it was not a secret meeting [...]

I’m all set for my trip tomorrow morning to Philadelphia for the Submergent Next Step Gathering. Among the things I am looking for, is to have a real Philly Cheesesteak sandwich with Mark Van Steenwyk and also finally hanging out in person with Jason Evans.
I’ll be posting some updates from the gathering
Submergent
Embracing the Anabaptist impulse, [...]

Back in Seattle.
I had a really terrific time conspirint with fellow friends of Submergent in Indiana. We make good connections with established and emerging anabaptists as well as some anabaptist influenced folks. I was glad to connect not only with practitioners, but also with academics and theologians in the Anabaptist and Christian radical tradition. 
I might not be [...]

I’m over in Goshen, Indiana hanging out with Mark Van Steenwyk and other Submergent conspirators. We are here to participate of the Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change conference.
While Submergent still forming it’s identity, we are here to connect with other emerging anabaptist and those influence by the anabaptist ethos who want to live into the Kingdom [...]

Celts and Anabaptists: Wisdom from the Margins for Tomorrow’s Church? | The Anabaptist Network
Among the fascinating things that are going on today are the reemergence from the margins of Christendom of the Celtic and the Anabaptist Christian traditions. There are many differences between these traditions. The Celtic tradition is very old; it emerged in the [...]