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Dec. 13 Monasticism Remix: Exploring Monastic Spirituality in the 21st Century

Monasticism Remix: Traditional & Neo-Monastic Spirituality in the 21st Century
Mustard Seed Associates invites you to an evening of prayers and explorations of Traditional & Neo-Monastic spirituality.
In this event neo-monastic practitioners and traditional monastic sisters and brothers will come together for a generative conversation about living monastic spirituality in the 21st century.
The evening will include a light meal, [...]

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 [...]

Remembering the Feast of St. Cuthbert Bishop of Lindisfarne

Almighty God, you called Cuthbert from following the flock to be a shepherd of your people: Mercifully grant that, as he sought in dangerous and remote places those who had erred and strayed from your ways, so we may seek the indifferent and the lost, and lead them back to you; through Jesus Christ our [...]

Feb. 27 Conversation with Mark Van Steenwyk in Seattle

 

Join us at the Mustard Seed House for an evening of conversation with Missio Dei’s communitarian Mark Van Steenwyk and follow Mustard Seed House people.
Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace). Missio [...]

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 [...]

Dear church: “get yo’ monk on with your Anabaptist self”

This comes from my anabaptist monk friend from down under, Jarrod McKenna.
It’s being called “New Monasticism”, “The Anabaptist Conspirators”, “The Emerging Peace Church Movement”, “The Anabaptist Impulse”, “Submergent” and “The Common Root”. What is it? Well some like Tom Sine are suggesting it’s not just a faddish recovery of things lying dormant in the evangelical [...]

Remembering Lanza del Vasto, Servant of Peace

 

“Power can be used for any purpose, but non-violence and the power of of justice can serve only justice.”
“… the future must be a future of non-violence, or else there will be no future.”
“…peace, strength and joy.”

 
 
Lanza del Vasto, (Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia), (September 29, 1901 – January 5,1981) was a philosopher, poet, artist, and [...]

Benedictine Community and Anabaptist Ecclesiology

Anabaptism is unique among all ecclesial frames for reference derived from the Reformation in many ways, one of which involves its Catholic roots and specifically Benedictine roots. Unlike Luther the Augustinian, Calvin the lawyer, or Zwingli the Christian humanist, the Anabaptist tradition arose largely in the soil of the Benedictine tradition. This is seen most [...]

New Monasticism and White Privilege

This is a post I wrote for God’s Politics blog as my contribution to the current conversation on Racial Reconciliation Challenge to New Monasticism initiated by Jason and Vonetta Storbakken from Radical Living Community in NYC. 
What I wrote may sting a bit, this kind of stuff always do. So I am expecting some heat to come [...]

Apply this to Emergent, Emerging, Missional, New Monastic or any expression of contemporary Christianity

I don’t want to hear about your movement or buzz, if it does not move people to love and to live alternatively. Show me your love and compassion, not your books and blogs.
 “I don’t want to hear your philosophy if it doesn’t grow corn.”  - Anishnaabee saying
 ”Si tu revolución no sabe bailar, no me invites [...]

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