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

The Reality of Diversity

I wrote this reflection for the MSA Journey into Wholeness Lenten Guide. It is also featured in the current MSA Seed Sampler, Welcoming a Majority World. The title was given by the editors of both resources.

“What do you mean by ‘just one’? I’m not choosing just one!” I told my wife on the phone. She [...]

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 [...]

Social Media & Mission Conversation

Last Thursday around 20 people crammed in our living room for a conversation about Social Media & Mission. I expected a group mostly of geeky guys (maybe gal or two) but to my delight it ended up been a very diverse gathering, with people as old as 70, about half of the participants were [...]

Friendship trips vs. mission trips

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Festival of the Imagination

Tomorrow starts The New Conspirators Festival. I will be blogging with updates and reports from it. So stay tuned.
My wife and I will also be leading a Conspiracy Session about the revolution starting at home in the context of community.
Our friend Mark Pierson is already here (actually sitting across from me in our living [...]

Monks, Community & Rule of Life

 Read more about our dreams and vision for Mustard Seed Associates, the Mustard Seed House and the Celtic Community Project -
Monks, Community & Rule of Life « Godspace
Yesterday the Boston Globe printed a great article The Unexpected Monks, on the move towards monasticism by many evangelicals. It is something that resonates very deeply with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Affirmations to live by

Mustard Seed Affirmations for a Whole Life Faith
Do you want to join with others in the mustard seed network to encourage the growth of God’s mustard seed all over the world? If so, consider joining MSA friends by creating a discipline of life that enables you, in community with others, to become a whole [...]

Not Your Father’s Commune

Not Your Father’s Commune
by Tom Sine
A group of young Methodists are putting their faith in ‘co-housing’
From re:generation quarterly.
While some North American congregations spend vast sums on expanding physical plants, their next generation is asking, “Is this all there is?” These young people are unwilling to let modernity arrange most of the furniture of life, while [...]

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