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Free MP3 Conversation about Intentional Communities and Christian Radicalism with Mark Van Steenwyk

As part of our Cultivating Intentional Communities gatherings, on Feb. 27.09 we crammed 29 people in the middle level of the Mustard Seed House in Seattle for a conversation about Intentional Communities and Christian Radicalism with Mark Van Steenwyk.
Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei (an Anabaptist intentional community anchored on the West [...]

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 [...]

The New Monastics and Mosaic Leadership

A brilliant and truth-filled post by Gabriel Salguero as part of the conversation about New Monastics and Race at God’s Politics blog.
 The New Monastics and Mosaic Leadership: Otra Voz by Gabriel Salguero
A Historical-Contextual Perspective: This is no small point. Often in the public presentations, books, and conferences of these aforementioned movements, they are presented [...]

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 [...]

Reconciliation’s Challenge for New Monastic Communities (by Jason and Vonetta Storbakken)

Do not miss this insightful and provocative post from my friends Jason and Vonetta Strobakken from Radical Living Community in NYC. This is a first in a series of posts and responses in God’s Politics Blog about the subject of multi-cuttural, multi-racial, multi-ethnic expression in new monasticism.
Reconciliation’s Challenge for New Monastic Communities (by Jason and Vonetta [...]

Photos of the Mustard Seed House

The Mustard Seed House (MSH) is an intentional Christian Community in Seattle. I am very fortunate to be one of the original core families and conspirators in this liberated space in which we try to embody God’s Kingdom value as a new kind of family.
Here are some photos of some of our gatherings, activities and [...]

Open space at MSH for those seriously seeking community

Peter and Anneke Geel will be leaving the Mustard Seed House in August. Peter has been accepted into the doctoral program at Georgetown University and for some reason they aren’t very keen on commuting to Washington DC each week. We are looking for a couple who are interested in joining our small community here in [...]

Mustard Seed House at the Agape Times

My Friend Jason from our sister community the Radical Living Community (In NYC) sent me their new newsletter - Agape Times.
In this issue we…

Stop by the local food co-op
Visit the Bruderhof in Harlem
Hear from Eliacin of the Mustard Seed House in Seattle
Share images of hope from Kenya
Explore the relationship between guerilla theater and the prophetic [...]

Why We Live in Community

This is an article written by Christine Sine, fellow communitarian at the Mustard Seed House, about living in community.
Read full article at The Other Journal
My husband Tom and I live in a small intentional community in Seattle, Washington called the Mustard Seed House. We inhabit the middle floor of a triplex with a young family [...]

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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