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Jesus Freak by Sara Miles - Short Book Review

By Ricci Kilmer

“…anywhere there’s food, spirit and matter intersect.
And the power to feed — and particularly to share food
with people outside your tribe — always has the
potential to transform lives.” pg. 21
Too many of us stay in an ethereal realm where to greatest outcome of our food choices is a smug satisfaction of eating an [...]

Julie Clawson – Practicing “Everyday Justice” |

via theooze.tv
A must see.

Posted via web from Eliacín Rosario-Cruz

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Moltmann - Eucharist: the Sacrament of Remembered Hope.

The following quote is powerful enough to start a true revolution.
In the Lord’s Supper, the eucharist, what history and life ‘between the times’ means for Christians is experienced in an examplary and definitive way. It is the sign of remembrance of Christ’s suffering and death ‘for many’, a remembrance which makes present, and as such [...]

Remembering the Feast of Ascension

 
The Christian doctrine of the Ascension holds that Jesus‘ body ascended to heaven in the presence of his apostles following his resurrection, and that in heaven he sits at the Father’s right hand. Jesus died c. 30. In the Epistle to the Romans (c. 56-57),[1] Paul describes Christ as in heaven and in the abyss,[2] the earliest Christian reference to Jesus in heaven. The most influential account of the Ascension, and according to the two-source hypothesis the earliest[3], is in [...]

May 24: In Portland, Join us in a Conversation about Intentional Communities/New Monasticism

The Rosario-Kilmer tribe from The Mustard Seed House (in picture from left to right: Catie, Gabrielito, Elías, Ricci and I) will be hanging out in Portland this weekend (May 22-25).
Our friends Kerlin and Jordan are hosting a gathering on Sunday May 24, for rabble-rousers and holy dreamers to come together to share stories and explore [...]

Video - Interview with Mark Van Steenwyk

 
This is an short interview with Mark Van Steenwyk in his recent visit to the Mustard Seed House in Seattle. Mark is the founder of Missio Dei a Christian radical intentional community in Minneapolis and a co-conspirator of The Common Root. He is also the editor of The Jesus Manifesto.
In this short video he share some [...]

My Recent Posts at Sojourners God’s Politics Blog

 
 

Breaking Out of the Socially Contructed Box
by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz 05-13-2009

“What do you mean by ‘just one’? I’m not choosing just one!” I told my wife on the phone. She had told me that according to the educational department of our city, in order to register our daughter in an…
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Native American Communities and Insights into Oppression

Kuddos to TheOoze.Tv
for their latest video dealing with questions of power, oppression and Christian complicity. I’m glad to see the conversation go beyond sugar-coated issues of spirituality and ecclesial gymnastics. 
 

 
Andrea describes how native groups and people of color used to organize themselves around common areas of oppression, but that this became an unhealthy way to [...]

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 [...]

May 16: Pentecost Seattle: Faith and Justice for the 21st Century

Mustard Seed Associates invites you to a groundbreaking event taking place in Seattle. Coming together across denominations and theological differences, Seattle’s Christians - Evangelical, Emerging Church, Mainline and Catholic - will meet to converse in an open and hopeful way about the most urgent and changing needs of Seattle’s varied neighborhoods.
Pentecost Seattle: Faith and Justice [...]

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