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Reconciliation’s Challenge for New Monastic Communities (by Jason and Vonetta Storbakken)

Do not miss this insightful and provocative post from my friends Jason and Vonetta Strobakken from Radical Living Community in NYC. This is a first in a series of posts and responses in God’s Politics Blog about the subject of multi-cuttural, multi-racial, multi-ethnic expression in new monasticism.
Reconciliation’s Challenge for New Monastic Communities (by Jason and Vonetta [...]

… that one day

[HT- Bob Carlton}

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Vocabulary for a New World - Communalism

In many parts of the world, communalism is a modern term that describes a broad range of social movements and social theories which are in some way centered upon the community. Communalism can take the form of communal living or communal property, among others. Communalism is defined as a theory of a society that is divided into several small, independent communes and the state is just [...]

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 [...]

God Loves Sex Workers and Doesn’t Require Them to Repent

Here is an interview with my friend Bowie Snodgrass from NYC.
village voice sex naked city - God Loves Sex Workers and Doesn’t Require Them to Repent
Bowie Snodgrass and her colleague Isaac Everett are the founders of Transmission, an emerging liturgical community in New York City that meets every other week in its members’ homes. Participants [...]

CWC Texts: The Really Really Free Market

CWC Texts : The Really Really Free Market
Once a month two hundred or more people from all walks of life gather at the commons in the center of our town. They bring everything from jewelry to firewood to give away, and take whatever they want. There are booths offering bicycle repair, hairstyling, even tarot readings. [...]

“Greenbelt” like Festival Survey

Some of you are aware of the fantastic Greenbelt Festival in the UK. For the past months I’ve been part of the planning for something similar here in North America. A group of us have put together a survey in a way to listen to wider range of important diverse voices as we continue with [...]

the monastic orders of the white men

As Andrew Jones mentioned on one of his recent posts on his blog, us here in the Mustard Seed House are in conversations about monastic orders and what/how that would look in our urban context here in Seattle and on what will be in the future a Celtic flavored new monastic retreat/intentional rural [...]

Listening to the Emerging World

Instead of playing the wink’em game and doing another book report (oh… you know what I’m talking about), why not pay attention to what the Emerging World has to tell us?
World Social Forum
More news of hope and transformation from the past US Social Forum - This is what happens when people in the USA [...]

Vocabulary for a New World - Autogestión

Autogestión is a form of workplace decision-making in which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer care, general production methods, scheduling, division of labour etc.) instead of the traditional authoritative supervisor telling workers what to do, how to do it and where to do it. Examples of such self-management include the Spanish [...]

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