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

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

That is what seem to be the response of the USAmerican church in regards to the economic recession and it’s effects effects in the community. While businesses are creating new ways to stay afloat and increase capacity in this time, the USAmerican church is silent to her call to serve and be more generous [...]

Feb. 27 Conversation with Mark Van Steenwyk in Seattle

 

Join us at the Mustard Seed House for an evening of conversation with Missio Dei’s communitarian Mark Van Steenwyk and follow Mustard Seed House people.
Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West Bank of Minneapolis that pursues Jesus’ way of simplicity, prayer, hospitality, and peace). Missio [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Listen to Tom Sine conversation at Moot, UK

Via Moot Blog
Just in case you missed Tom Sines challenging and topical address to the Moot Community tonight, check out the Moot podcast here, recorded in two sections.
Toms wisdom is a challenge as we contemplate Moots desire to set up an intentional community and activities around social justice, in our eventual home we hope.
To listen [...]

Women in the Third World

MSA Seed Sampler for the month of July is out. This issue is focused on Women in the Third World.
Women in the Third World - Seed Sampler 08
The status of women varies enormously from one part of the world to another, but there are few places in which it is equal to that of men. [...]

Thin Space: Learning from the Celtic Saints

Thin Space Learning from the Celtic Saints:  a day long learning/sharing experience hosted by Mustard Seed Associates and the Mustard Seed House.

When? June 7
Where? Mustard Seed House, Seattle WA

Register online
The rediscovery of Celtic Christianity has been a delightful revelation for many followers of Christ in recent years. Many Christians are intrigued by this rich tradition and [...]

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 [...]

Jonny Baker reviews The New Conspirators Book

jonnybaker: jesus’ empire of the mustard seed - tom sine is back in classic fashion

Tom (Sine) maps the current new things happening with a mapping of four movements whose edges are blurred and overlap - emerging, mosaic, new monastic, and missional and he is enthusiastic about them all (i agreed with shaine clayborne’s hesitation in [...]

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