Inspiration from Geez Magazine: Neo Monasticism also known as Ordinary Life in the Neighbourhood

Our good friend, community member and colleague Eliacin Rosario Cruz has just written a thought provoking response to an article published in Geez Magazine – one of my favourite publications.  The original article Changing the Story of Change, raises some important issues.
Hosting visiting groups to New Jerusalem Now, a grassroots addiction treatment community in North [...]

What Will The Future Hold?

Summer is drawing to a close, and it seems to me that the end of the year is moving towards us at a very rapid clip.  The MSA team has begun a series of discernment sessions to try and shape at least some of what we focus on over the next couple of years.  As [...]

A Year in the Life of MSA

Every year, we devote one issue of the MSA ezine, the Seed Sampler to the happenings at MSA. The other issues are all about what other people are doing to address the urgent challenges of our times.
Some great stuff has been happening here: a fantastic Celtic Prayer Retreat, hands-on gardening workshops, putting an East coast intern [...]

Listening to the Other

The June MSA Seed Sampler is entitled Encountering the Other.  In it we have sort to present the viewpoints of those who are different from us and who view faith in ways that may seem foreign and even offensive to us.  In her introduction our editor judy Naegeli states
The great challenge of the Christian faith [...]

The Spirituality of Gardening Seminar is Over

Saturday we held the second Spirituality of Gardening seminar at the Mustard Seed House.  Twenty five participants gathered in our living room to share gardening knowledge and reflect on the spiritual lessons we had all learned from our interactions with the garden.  Dave Timmer shared a little of the far more ambitious endeavours that he [...]

Join Us for Read the Other Month.

The month of May is Read the Other month at Mustard Seed Associates as part of our Alternative Calendar celebration and we are encouraging people to consider reading literature that they would not usually look at.  If you never read fiction this is the time to dip into it, or poetry or maybe you want [...]

Pray for Us At Mustard Seed Associates

Once a month I produce a monthly update and prayer request letter for Mustard Seed Associates.  I thought that you might be interested in seeing the various events and projects we are involved in.  We would appreciate your prayers for all that is happening.  
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May 11th, 2009
 
Dear Prayer Partner,
Greetings to you all on a beautiful [...]

Pentecost Seattle

Here is an event that I am really excited about – a wonderful opportunity for us to encourage each other to get involved in our neighborhoods.
On May 16, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Emerging Church, Catholic and Mainline Christians together with those who are spiritually inclined but unrelated to any Christian community will gather in Seattle for Pentecost [...]

In Need of Administrative help

You may have noticed from some of my blog posts recently that I am a little overworked at the moment.  I am currently looking for someone who might be able to volunteer to help in the MSA office as an administrative assistant 10 – 12 hours a week.  If you know anyone that might be [...]

Welcome to the New Majority Future

Check out the latest MSA Seed Sampler – Welcome to the New Majority Future
It is difficult for many white people to admit their privilege and dominance in society, especially American society. It is a sensitive topic, discussions of which at any great length can lead to hurt feelings, defensiveness, and resentment.  Read more