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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. 
 - Nelson Mandela
Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday on July 18.

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Photo taken in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico April 2007
I’m fortunate to have my dad around this month here in Seattle. Someone asked me once which were my favorite saints and I was not surprise to find mentioning my dad as one of them. 

¡Felíz día de los padres mi Viejo!

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Blogging have been sporadically around here recently. I’ll be on and offline on vacation until June 30 showing off Seattle and the Washington State to my family from Puerto Rico.
Today we will celebrate a year of missed birthday parties.

Photo taken April 2007 in Ponce, Puerto Rico

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In August Anneke and Peter Geel who live in the basement apartment at the Mustard Seed House will be heading to Georgetown University where Peter will be working on a PhD. Peter’s interest is in Christian/ Islamic relations and so Sunday afternoon we celebrated this new step in their lives with a Middle Eastern [...]

The world has already been turned upside down; that’s what Easter is all about. It isn’t a matter of waiting until God eventually does something at the end of time. God has brought his future, his putting-his-world into rights future, into the presence of Jesus of Nazareth and he wants that future to be implicated [...]

An Economy Stimulating Giving Spree! : Jesus Manifesto
Come May, most of us tax paying citizens will be receiving a check in the mail. Now, regardless of whether you agree with capitalism, our government, or the Economic Stimulus package, the fact remains that you’ll be getting a check either way. Now, the question becomes how [...]

I have been tagged for the 1-2-3 Meme by Mark at Jesusmanifesto.com. The game is to grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 123. Find the 5th sentance and share the next 3 sentances with everyone. Then you tag five people.
My sentence is from Seasons of Celebration by Thomas Merton a [...]

 
 
Today we are getting for our beloved celebration of Los Tres Santos Reyes Magos (Three Wise Men).
The Rosario-Kilmer family will prepared a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas meal - arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas) and perníl asado (roasted pork shoulder).
 

 Los Tres Reyes are the main bearers of Christmas gifts for most latin americans. That [...]

Si tu revolución no sabe bailar, no me invites a tu revolución.

Words spoken by a young woman to el Subcomandante Marcos in the mountain hills of Chiapas.

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Making It Real, Sojourners Magazine/January 2008
by Tom Sine

If we are serious about finding a way to embody more authentically the aspirations and values of our faith instead of those of the culture, we need to start where many of these new conspirators do.  We need to rediscover the kingdom of God as not only [...]