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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 [...]

Help us cultivate Kingdom collaborations and creative expressions of love

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sawubona: We see You - Video

 
Youth worker and community leader Orland Bishop explains the meaning of the Zulu greeting Sawubona (”We see you”) as an invitation to a deep witnessing and presence. This greeting forms an agreement to affirm and investigate the mutual potential and obligation that is present in a given moment. At its deepest level, Orland explains, this [...]

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 [...]

Video - Ubuntu… compassion brought into colorful practice

Via The Global Oneness Project 

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The Food Crisis: How to Solve it :: Sara Miles’ Food Pantry Welcomes Strangers to the Table

This is a fantastic interview of my sister  Sara Miles done by the fine folks of Yes Magazine.
The Food Crisis: How to Solve it :: Sara Miles’ Food Pantry Welcomes Strangers to the Table
In this country, people think you have to eat the right thing with the right people. In most government-run programs, you have [...]

RedOracle: Postmodern hospitality

My friend Jess have a very insighful and challenging post about what hospitality means. She does it in the context for the Mennonite Church, but it is certainly a concept we should all explore and live.
RedOracle: Postmodern hospitality
This leads me to think about hospitality…how are we, as individual followers of Christ and together as a [...]

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 [...]

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