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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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 [...]

I’ve been following Jordon Cooper’s blog for years. He is one of the pioneer bloggers in the whole genx/pomo/emerging church convesation. Today he mentioned the Mustard Seed House (MSH) as one example of what it might look to have a missional imagination by growing communities instead of planting churches. He also mentioned other sisters communities like [...]

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Last Thursday around 20 people crammed in our living room for a conversation about Social Media & Mission. I expected a group mostly of geeky guys (maybe gal or two) but to my delight it ended up been a very diverse gathering, with people as old as 70, about half of the participants were [...]

Join us for a live streaming of the MSA Conversation with Thomas Knoll –
What? | A learning party about Social Media/Tech and Mission with Thomas Knoll
When? | April 23, 2008 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Where? | Mustard Seed House, Seattle, WA
To see the streaming and participate of the live chat visit www.msainfo.org on april [...]

7 Loving Challenges for Emergent via Mark Van Steenwyk

We should be careful not to draw lines in the sand–even if “they” drew it first.  We should always be VERY careful when we use us versus them language–especially within the Body of Christ. Within the emerging church, I’ve found many folks who, while [...]

I met Mark at a recent gathering in West Virginia. Mark is the pastor of Missio Dei a new monastic community in Minneapolis. We had very good conversations about new monasticism, emergent village, the emerging church, alternative creativity and the need for the church to create new models of life and to be enclave [...]

John from Innerchange and yours truly.
John is a a poet / pastor / prophet and ordinary person.  He blogs at Jaw Poetry.

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the longhaul life of the community
via Alan Creech
So, this is what I mean by the longhaul life of the community. We cannot live as communities of faith who are dependent on the newest, coolest thing that comes down the pike. We can’t sustain a transformative life together by merely “hanging out” - [...]