Is This A Move Of God?

Saturday I facilitated a Spirituality of Gardening seminar at the Mustard Seed House.  A small but extremely enthusiastic group gathered to discuss basics of organic gardening and how we encounter God in the garden.  Towards the end of the day we talked about the current move towards faith based community gardens that are springing up [...]

Help Us Make Soap… In the Ukraine

Some of you may remember that a couple of months ago I shared the story of Cindy Todd who started volunteering with us at Mustard Seed Associates at the beginning of this year.  Cindy started a small soap making business in order to help provide financially for this work.  She has even developed a Mustard [...]

Is The Emerging Church for Whites Only?

Last week I posted a link to the discussion that is going on about the male dominated nature of the emerging church movement. This week I wanted to highlight the broader discussion on The Emerging Church and Race.  This is such an important discussion as we move forward into a majority future in which the [...]

An Update from Mustard Seed Associates

Last week we held an exciting meeting here at the Mustard Seed House.  Our Mustard Seed team gathered with our Celtic Project team to discuss possibilities for moving forward towards the development of a Celtic monastic community on Camano Island.  We are in the beginning stages of negotiations with Christian educational and sustainability organizations who [...]

I Arise Today: Music By Stefan Andre Waligur

Those of us who love Celtic chants are always looking for new song writers and musicians who contribute to this area of music.  I was delighted this last week to receive links to this beautiful chant by Stefan Andre Waligur You can listen to the professional and very beautiful version on Stefan’s website here or [...]

I Didn’t Learn It From the White Males

Some of you have been following the synchroblog initiated by Julie Clawson on What is the Emerging Church. The responses to this have been diverse and fascinating.  I particularly enjoyed this post by Mike Clawson – maybe because like me Mike has learned many of his lessons from theologians outside the Western context. This effort [...]

Earth Day with Eyafjallajokull

Here is a post that is well worth looking at.  First Colleen Scheck mentions the thought provoking fact that the cancelled flights would have caused far more carbon emissions than the volcanic eruption did.  Second don’t miss the spectacular photos of the volcano. With air travel considered a principle contributor to climate change, perhaps this [...]

Happy Earth Day or is It?

Today is Earth Day.  I know because every garden supply company I receive emails from has hit me with free offers and special sales to commemorate the day and that I suspect is not really a very earth friendly thing to do.  Shipping so much unnecessary stuff half way across the country is a very [...]

Finding the Center – How Do we Balance Our Lives?

I just received an email from a friend with whom I was supposed to meet this morning.  Unfortunately she is so stressed out trying to maintain the balancing act of work, life and faith that she has had to cancel.  And she is feeling guilty not just because she is too busy but also because [...]

What is Emerging in our Culture?

Yesterday I participated in a synchroblog on What is Emerging? referring to the emerging church movement and the changes we see happening in our churches and faith communities.  It was obvious that many of us continue to grapple with these issues.  For some they are never far from our thoughts. This discussion raised other questions [...]