kingdom praxis | a.k.a. eliacín’s blog

Disco lives on!

For Catie’s birthday party, we asked friends and family that gifts were not necessary, that it was just a time to celebrate Catie. But as you know there are always people who want to bring gifts, so we asked them to bring creative and homemade ones.  Matthew, one of Catie’s friends, made her this disco [...]

Living Simply with Kids

This comes from the latest MSA Seed Sampler ezine.
Living Simply with Kids

In certain Christian circles, simplicity is deemed a high virtue of a faithful life. I did an interview with a group of ultra-cool college students who live so simply, they get their food from dumpsters. That’s all very well for single college students. What [...]

Mark your calendar: Living Simply with Kids Workshop

 

The Revolution Starts at Home: Living Simply with Kids
This will the the first in a series of workshops and conversations related to homegrown revolution, alternative living, sustainability, cultural awareness, social justice and other holy mischievous act of resistance and creativity.
For those of us trying to live an intentional Christian life kids can be both and [...]

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 [...]

Bizarre Foods at the Mustard Seed House

Move to the side Andrew Zimmerman, we have our own bizarre food connousieur here at the Mustard Seed House.
 

 

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The Revolution starts at home

 
The Revolution starts at home is the title for the workshop my family will be facilitating at The New Conspirators conference, or better yet Festival of the Imagination. Our purpose will be to share a bit of how do we embodied the revolutionary and radical teachings of Jesus in our everyday life at home.  More than been [...]

Christmas story according to Catie

Click on the link to enjoy my 5 yrs old daughter Catie version of the Christmas story.
The Christmas Story According to Catie.

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No Borders Camp / Campamento Contra Fronteras

No Borders Camp / Campamento Contra Fronteras
NO BORDERS CAMP NOVEMBER 2007 CALEXICO/MEXICALI, TURTLE ISLAND
As long as the US/Mexico border has existed, people having been struggling against it. The border itself is a colonial war monument and it continues to be the site of a not-so-low intensity war. It is a boundary marking an internal space [...]

Gabrielito

Gabriel will be 5 months old tomorrow. On Sunday, he will take the big plunge as he is welcome into the family of the church through the rite of Holy Baptism.

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Kid’s questions

Questions kids ask their Priest:

She was talking about Jesus coming out of God’s uterus. I told her that it really didn’t happen that way and she said, “Why, God is a woman and women have uteruses.” It was SO hard not to burst out laughing. Anyway, that led to a discussion about [...]