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

hereby request admission as a Postulant for Priesthood

Recently I took a very nerve racking and exciting step that included the following words:

After much discernment, prayers and reflection I believe God has called me to participate as an ordained priest in the work of reconciliation and spiritual formation of His people. I want to invite and welcome people into the family of God [...]

Re-Membering Emergent Village: First Thoughts

(This is not a step by step retelling of the EV DC 09 weekend, but a brief reflection a week after the event. There will be more posts following this one. Photos thanks to Tim Snyder)

As I mentioned before, on April 24-26 I joined 24 sisters and brothers in a process that I refer as [...]

Video - Ubuntu… compassion brought into colorful practice

Via The Global Oneness Project 

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I do not want to be tolerated or included.

Interestingly enough people sometimes get surprised and/or offended when they hear me say that I do not want to be tolerated or included.  Tolerance and inclusion while at first glance they appear to be favorable concepts in a deeper level they are a “softer” expressions of violence and ostracism. To be tolerated and included, speaks [...]

Renouncing the dominant frame of reference

Or in rastafarian terms, “steppin outa Babylon.”

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I’m not your object- early uprooting of patriarchal narrative

I am the proud father of a wild eyed, curious, perceptive, funny and revolutionary daughter.
Last Thanksgiving weekend while visiting my in-laws, Catie (my 6 yrs old daughter) while playing around with her brother, kept coming to sit on my lap, for just a few minutes -sometimes second- She would get up and go back to [...]

Discernment at the Mustard Seed House

Via Godspace
Sunday night we started a series of discernment sessions with the Mustard Seed House community to work out how we can put our MSA rule of life into practice.  Over the next few months we plan to use this process to flesh out the shape of not just our community life but our personal disciplines too.  The idea [...]

Becoming Community | On Community Discernment

I constantly get ask what is Mustard Seed Associates (MSA) and what do we do. I also find myself trying to answer who we are and what do we do as intentional community, re: The Mustard Seed House. The answer to those  question can be as short as “we are a group of people living together trying to [...]