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Sawubona: We see You - Video

 
Youth worker and community leader Orland Bishop explains the meaning of the Zulu greeting Sawubona (”We see you”) as an invitation to a deep witnessing and presence. This greeting forms an agreement to affirm and investigate the mutual potential and obligation that is present in a given moment. At its deepest level, Orland explains, this [...]

New Series: Cultivating Intentional Communities

 
This post starts a new series dedicated to the journey of cultivating and living in Intentional Communities (IC). The purpose of this series is to start a conversation as I share some of my experiences as life long practitioner and student of this way of life.  I hope to contribute to a deeper and practical [...]

Create a Community Altar Week - Mustard Seed Calendar

According to the Alternative Mustard Seed Calendar, this week is Create your Community (Family, dorm, tent, church, workplace, etc…) Altar Week.
Create a personal/ community shrine in a week - A shrine is a piece of furniture with tangibles that serve us to remind us of intangibles-
Gather a piece of furniture (shelf, cabinet, cupboard, little table) [...]

Progress, Shame, and Silencing the Margins - Panel discussion

Via The Other Journal
Progress, Shame, and Silencing the Margins - Panel discussion of the Film Up The Yangtze
Moderator: Dwight Freisen
Panelists: Cal Uamoto, Eliacin Rosario-Cruz, Chelle Stearns, Christopher L. Heuertz
The following panel discussion took place at the Film, Faith, and Justice forum in Seattle, Washington on October 23rd, 2008.
Film, Faith, and Justice is a forum exploring [...]

Beautiful trivialities in life

It has been awhile since this blog have seen some action. I recently post a tweet -you don’t know what a tweet is? You are so 2006 -  in which I stated that I am blogging less, and living more. Which it is not necessary true, I’m living the same as when I was blogging [...]

Time Banking - Creating Social Change by Weaving Community

Time Banking - Creating Social Change by Weaving Community
At its most basic level, Time banking is simply about spending an hour doing something for somebody in your community. That hour goes into the Time Bank as a Time Dollar. Then you have a Time dollar to spend on having someone doing something for you. It’s [...]

Recession, how can communities and churches prepare?

Mustard Seed Associates » Recession is Looming: How Can We Prepare? » Creating the future one mustard seed at a time
We at Mustard Seed Associates want to invite you to join this important conversation. Read the summary of the ideas generated by our brainstorming groups and the other articles. Then please feel [...]

Recession is Looming: How can we prepare?

Via Mustard Seed Associates
When we started planning this issue of the Seed Sampler, the near meltdown on Wall Street was still a few weeks away. We had no idea how pertinent this information would be become. In light of recent events, recession preparedness (and response) plans in churches and communities are going to be vital [...]

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 [...]

The Common Root launched!

Via Jesus Manifesto

Last week, thecommonroot.org was launched. The Common Root is a network for communities committed to Jesus’ radical way of shalom. This network used to be called “Submergent,” but we changed the name for a couple reasons. First, folks kept assuming that we were a sub-group of Emergent for Anabaptists. Secondly, the name didn’t [...]

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