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Jesus Freak by Sara Miles - Short Book Review

By Ricci Kilmer

“…anywhere there’s food, spirit and matter intersect.
And the power to feed — and particularly to share food
with people outside your tribe — always has the
potential to transform lives.” pg. 21
Too many of us stay in an ethereal realm where to greatest outcome of our food choices is a smug satisfaction of eating an [...]

Julie Clawson – Practicing “Everyday Justice” |

via theooze.tv
A must see.

Posted via web from Eliacín Rosario-Cruz

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If God is hidden

If God is hidden, it is because he is out of the reach of our senses or imagination, even of our mental perceptions… It is true that our reason can get at least some glimpse of his existence, and we learn even more about him through the revealed Scripture; yet he remains always beyond any [...]

Poem: We have not come here to take prisoners, by Hafiz

WE HAVE NOT COME TO TAKE PRISONERS
 
We have not come here to take prisoners,
But to surrender ever more deeply
To freedom and joy.
 
We have not come into this exquisite world
To hold ourselves hostage from love.
 
Run my dear,
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.
 
Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, [...]

Moltmann - Eucharist: the Sacrament of Remembered Hope.

The following quote is powerful enough to start a true revolution.
In the Lord’s Supper, the eucharist, what history and life ‘between the times’ means for Christians is experienced in an examplary and definitive way. It is the sign of remembrance of Christ’s suffering and death ‘for many’, a remembrance which makes present, and as such [...]

Mapping the Divine Week

 
According to the Mustard Seed Alternative Calendar this week is Mapping the Divine Week.
Take a map of your neighborhood/City (you can get this thru Google Maps) And for the extent of this week mark those areas in which you and others in your community and/or neighborhood encounter the Divine . It can be a [...]

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 [...]

Liminal Places and the Urban Camino

By my friend Tim Mathis

 Liminal Places and the Urban Camino » Mustard Seed Associates Creating the future one mustard seed at a time

The concept of liminality is important, I think, in that it points us to the truth that God strikes out at us from within the context of creation rather than through ‘inbreaking’ [...]

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 [...]

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