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

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 [...]

How to tell people they sound racist

 
[HT -Jordon Cooper]

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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 [...]

Brown is the New Green

Brown is the New Green

Brown is the New Green:
George Lopez and the American Dream - Synopsis
Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.” - George Lopez

Numbering 44 million, Latinos are not only [...]

on being brown

A summary of racial related conversations in the last month:
1. “oh… you are Eliacin, I’ve been meaning to meet you. You are latino right? From Mexico!
- No, in spite of your idea of all latino’s on this side of the country being mexicans, I am Puerto Rican.
2. ” I don’t see your color. You are [...]