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Dear Friends and fellow Kingdom collaborators,
As many of you know for the past two years Ricci (my wife) and I have been part of Mustard Seed Associates. Because of the loving generosity of many friends,  we have been financially supported to work full-time with this great ministry, allowing us to fully focus on instigating Kingdom collaborations [...]

The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.

In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them. It will be well, therefore, if every member receives a [...]

TransFORM

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Mapping the Divine Week

 
According to the Mustard Seed Alternative Calendar this week is Mapping the Divine Week.
Take a map of your neighborhood/City (you can get this thru Google Maps) And for the extent of this week mark those areas in which you and others in your community and/or neighborhood encounter the Divine . It can be a [...]

Vocabulary for a New World: Parecon

Participatory economics, often abbreviated parecon, is a proposed economic system that uses participatory decision making as an economic mechanism to guide the production, consumption and allocation of resources in a given society. Proposed as an alternative to contemporary capitalistmarket economies and also an alternative to centrally planned socialism or coordinatorism, it is described as “an anarchistic economic vision”,[1] and it could be considered a form of socialism as under parecon, the means of production [...]

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 [...]

Help me go to CCDA Conference 2009

I am looking forward been able to make it to the upcoming CCDA Conference in Cincinnati October 21-25. But I do not have the means cover all the expenses.  I’ve spoken with some my holy rabble-rousers friends in Cinci and they have generously offer me a place to stay and a Texan BBQ.  Now all [...]

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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Join us at Pentecost Seattle - May 16, 2009

Pentecost Seattle: Faith and Justice for the 21st Century
I invite 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 [...]

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