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Celebrating The Feast of Los Tres Reyes Magos (Biblical Magi)

Los Reyes arrive before dawn on January 6th. For centuries Puerto Rican children have celebrated Los Reyes in the same manner as their grandparents did when they were children. January 6 is called Epiphany and is traditionally the day in which the Magi arrived bearing gifts for the Christ child. Even to this day in [...]

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 [...]

Disco lives on!

For Catie’s birthday party, we asked friends and family that gifts were not necessary, that it was just a time to celebrate Catie. But as you know there are always people who want to bring gifts, so we asked them to bring creative and homemade ones.  Matthew, one of Catie’s friends, made her this disco [...]

thoughts about community from my 5yrs old daughter

Last month I interviewed Catie for the MSA Seed Sampler issue on Living Simply with Kids. I asked her thoughts on why she lives in community and the importance of gardening. It’s pretty insightful and very funny.
Listen here.

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Living Simply with Kids

This comes from the latest MSA Seed Sampler ezine.
Living Simply with Kids

In certain Christian circles, simplicity is deemed a high virtue of a faithful life. I did an interview with a group of ultra-cool college students who live so simply, they get their food from dumpsters. That’s all very well for single college students. What [...]

Mark your calendar: Living Simply with Kids Workshop

 

The Revolution Starts at Home: Living Simply with Kids
This will the the first in a series of workshops and conversations related to homegrown revolution, alternative living, sustainability, cultural awareness, social justice and other holy mischievous act of resistance and creativity.
For those of us trying to live an intentional Christian life kids can be both and [...]

Reflection: A year at the Mustard Seed House

This is a reflection written by our fellow sister, friend and communitarian at the Mustard Seed House, Anneke Geel. 
Reflection: A year at the Mustard Seed House
By Anneke Geel

When Peter and I and moved into the Mustard Seed House, we didn’t know whether it would be for 15 months or several years. As it [...]

using facebook to fight global poverty « beauty and depravity

This comes from my friend Eugene Cho
using facebook to fight global poverty
After mocking social networking sites for awhile, I finally joined Facebook one year ago. And while there are still some things that I strongly dislike about Facebook [e.g. constant invitations to Applications], I am a big fan. It works. I’ve [...]

Calling 911 for Gabrielito

Gabrielito is my 18 month old son. He was born on Christmas Day 2006. He was born with a respiratory problem and had to be resucitated at the moment of birth and was taken by ambulance to the NICU at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. An unforgetful moment.
Last night we had another tense parent episode. He [...]

Bizarre Foods at the Mustard Seed House

Move to the side Andrew Zimmerman, we have our own bizarre food connousieur here at the Mustard Seed House.
 

 

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