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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 [...]

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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Emergent Village 2.0 - Whatcha think? No, seriously what do you think?

 

The Future of Emergent Village - from the Emergent Village blog 
Last summer, the Emergent Village board put out a survey to see what Emergent felt itself becoming. The overwhelming result of that survey was that people wanted this network of generative friendships to continue. This continuation (and even broadening) of the friendship is taking multiple [...]

The Common Root 09: creating our future in the shadow of Empire

The Common Root 09 is three weeks away. There is still plenty of room for registrations. This is a labor of love: we’ve worked hard to get great speakers and workshop leaders to come help us to pursue the shalom of Christ in the shadow of empire. We’ve kept costs as low as possible so that individuals and [...]

The Common Root launched!

Via Jesus Manifesto

Last week, thecommonroot.org was launched. The Common Root is a network for communities committed to Jesus’ radical way of shalom. This network used to be called “Submergent,” but we changed the name for a couple reasons. First, folks kept assuming that we were a sub-group of Emergent for Anabaptists. Secondly, the name didn’t [...]

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 [...]

Owning the table - need for new concepts and metaphors

I’ve been fortunate to facilitate and participate in diversity workshops and anti-racism training in which people have been brutally honest. There have been tears, strong words have been exchanged and people have asked for forgiveness and help to overcome their racism.  This kind of openness does not happen easily at these kind of workshops and [...]

Photos of the Mustard Seed House

The Mustard Seed House (MSH) is an intentional Christian Community in Seattle. I am very fortunate to be one of the original core families and conspirators in this liberated space in which we try to embody God’s Kingdom value as a new kind of family.
Here are some photos of some of our gatherings, activities and [...]

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