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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 [...]

New books in my bag - H. Cox, J. Clawson & S. Selmanovic

A couple new books have magically appeared in my book bag. I’m already working my way through some of them.

The Future of Faith
In this by Harvey Cox gives us a new interpretation of Christian history in the hopes to add more direction and content to the current conversations of new expressions of faith and [...]

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 [...]

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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Native American Communities and Insights into Oppression

Kuddos to TheOoze.Tv
for their latest video dealing with questions of power, oppression and Christian complicity. I’m glad to see the conversation go beyond sugar-coated issues of spirituality and ecclesial gymnastics. 
 

 
Andrea describes how native groups and people of color used to organize themselves around common areas of oppression, but that this became an unhealthy way to [...]

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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Colorblind but not colorless.

Prepare to be confronted.
 

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Renouncing the dominant frame of reference

Or in rastafarian terms, “steppin outa Babylon.”

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