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

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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 [...]

Free MP3 Conversation about Intentional Communities and Christian Radicalism with Mark Van Steenwyk

As part of our Cultivating Intentional Communities gatherings, on Feb. 27.09 we crammed 29 people in the middle level of the Mustard Seed House in Seattle for a conversation about Intentional Communities and Christian Radicalism with Mark Van Steenwyk.
Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West [...]

Feb. 7th - Justice at the Table Workshop

Come to our second “The Revolution Starts at Home” event, Justice at the Table! We will explore together the intricate connections between our faith and the food we eat. We will challenge ourselves and each other to bring our eating and buying practices more in line with our beliefs and draft a “Justice at the [...]

Jan. 2 at MSH - Holy Cooperation! Conversation with Andrew McLeod

 

Tonight the Mustard Seed House will be hosting activits and author Andrew McLeod in a reading and conversation of his book Holy Coopertation: Building Graceful Economies. The Event is free bu registration is required.  Register online

 
 
Andrew McLeod will present his debut book - Holy Cooperation: Building Graceful Economies, Wipf & Stock Publishers- exploring the [...]

MSH Advent Morning and Evening Prayers

Download now this PDF including a new set of Advent responsive prayers curated by Christine Sine.
Advent Morning & Evening Prayers.
This are the prayers we are using at the Mustard Seed House - daily at 8:30 AM (PST) and 9:00 PM (PST). Download them and pray with us.

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Small act of delicious resistance and creativity

 

 

 

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Discernment at the Mustard Seed House

Via Godspace
Sunday night we started a series of discernment sessions with the Mustard Seed House community to work out how we can put our MSA rule of life into practice.  Over the next few months we plan to use this process to flesh out the shape of not just our community life but our personal disciplines too.  The idea [...]

Becoming Community | On Community Discernment

I constantly get ask what is Mustard Seed Associates (MSA) and what do we do. I also find myself trying to answer who we are and what do we do as intentional community, re: The Mustard Seed House. The answer to those  question can be as short as “we are a group of people living together trying to [...]

Struggling with Kwik-E-Mart church

 
Here I am again, where I have been before, struggling about participating in a faith community a.k.a. church. This gets harder because for the last 4 years I’ve been an eucharistic christian and my belief is that I need to come to the Lords table, not alone but with others. My understanding of my relationship [...]

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 [...]

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