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

Howard Zinn: Anarchism Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word | Democracy and Elections | AlterNet
Ziga Vodovnik: In your People’s History of the United States you show us that our freedom, rights, environmental standards, etc., have never been given to us from the wealthy and influential few, but have always been fought out by ordinary people [...]

My friend and fellow Anglimergent Fr. Ian Mobsby just announced the launched of his second book. Ian’s community -Moot- is a sister to one of my communities here in Seattle, Church of the Apostles.
Here is what Ian says about his new book-

The Becoming of G-d: What the Trinitarian nature of God has to do with [...]

About a month or so ago, my Sarah Miles stopped to pay us a visit. I was glad that she was able to come and enjoy a very simple lunch and relax before returning to her book reading and presentation engagements here in Seattle.
Yesterday, Sarah was on NPR and my daughter was glued to the [...]

This weekend while I was not feeling too sociable I picked up the copy The Ooze.
This is yet another book in the recently popular line of spiritual memoirs. If you read some of Dan Miller, you might enjoy this one. I’m not a fan of Miller, but this one I like.  It is a quick [...]

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jonnybaker: jesus’ empire of the mustard seed - tom sine is back in classic fashion

Tom (Sine) maps the current new things happening with a mapping of four movements whose edges are blurred and overlap - emerging, mosaic, new monastic, and missional and he is enthusiastic about them all (i agreed with shaine clayborne’s hesitation in [...]

“Hay que dejar abierta la posibilidad de la fe como instrumento de humanización o, en lenguaje cristiano, como instrumento de salvación.”
Samuel Silva Gotay
El Nuevo Día - Samuel Silva Gotay y la religión como opio de los pueblos

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The New Conspirators : Creating the Future one Mustard Seed at a Time by Tom Sine
“In spite the fact that our world is changing at blinding speed and the church is going through some very tough times, God is still at work in ways that aren’t always immediately apparent. For some reason, God seems to [...]

While I think the title of this article is a little misleading, Submergents have been conspiring this connection for awhile now, is still a very insighful read.  In a recent conversartion with Brian while he was in Seattle, he showed a lot on enthusiasm and interest for Submergent, of which I am part even though [...]

First, Step Up :: Bill McKibben on Climate Solutions
Asking people to make sacrifices to stop Global Warming is political suicide, right? Evidently not.
Bill McKibben has been sounding the alarm on climate change since his 1989 book, The End of Nature. He lives in Ripton, Vermont, where he teaches, writes, and works to counter climate change.
At [...]