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• Their One Good Son Winners Never Quit By Tristan McDaniel  I first heard... More »
• Invitation to Inspired Imagination by Tom Sine God is stirring up the imaginations of artists, musicians and ordinary people around the world to give creative... More »

• Reviews of Two Provocative Titles Jesus Before Christianity (1976, 2001) by Albert Nolan, O.P. is a book which removes the lens of Christianity from looking... More »
• Book Review: Not for Sale By G. Stephen Goode, YWAM Thailand originally published as an Amazon Customer Review, March 9, 2007. Used with permission from the... More »
• Film Review: A Walk to Beautiful by Ricci Kilmer, Mustard Seed Associates I recently was invited to view a film called A Walk to Beautiful with some... More »
• Book Review of Alan Hirsch’s The Forgotten Ways The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Timothy Friend, Friends church pastor in California This review was originally written for the... More »
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Book review by Don Holsinger, Professor of... More »
• Home Is Where the Heart Is: Israel and Palestine—Whose Promised Land? Whose Land? Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians Book review by Lindsay Lackey There... More »

• Resources for August 2009 Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire... More »

• Photo Reflection of the Celtic Retreat We had a lovely weekend last month celebrating the Celtic spiritual traditions of prayer and worship, work and rest, community... More »
• MSA's 18th Annual Celtic Prayer Retreat Restore the Rhythm | Rebuild the Soul | Renew the Call There are times when we need space . . . space... More »
• Why Do We Need a Rule of Life? by Christine Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Why a rule of life, you might ask? We sense that God’s spirit is currently... More »

• The House: A New Hybrid in Seattle By Eric Likkel, Northwest Hothouse Churches come in all shapes and sizes. In the emerging stream of church planting, groups intentionally... More »
• Quest Church in Seattle, WA Quest Church in Seattle is an innovative multicultural church plant in Seattle that reaches out to their community in creative... More »
• Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN Sanctuary Covenant Church is an example of a Mosaic church plant that has created a richly multicultural community learning to... More »
• Life Covenant Church – A Missional Example by Tim Morey, Pastor Describe the small group of those who joined you at the beginning and the date you launched. Life... More »

• Board Member Updates David Vandervort is a residential and commercial architect and a native of Seattle. He received his BA in architecture... More »
• A Celtic Community for Sustainable Spirituality and Life by Tom Sine, MSA Founder We seem to be racing headlong into increasingly uncertain times as we recover from the worse... More »
• MSA as Intentional Community by Eliacín Rosario Cruz, Community Catalyst and Cultivator I constantly get asked what Mustard Seed Associates (MSA) is and... More »
• A Year in the Life of MSA by Christine Sine, Executive Director When I wrote our annual MSA update a year ago, I wrote about the discernment process... More »
• Early House Churches by Shonnie Scott Shonnie Scott, one of the board members of MSA, is writing a dissertation on how the ministry of... More »
• The Other Is My Neighbor by Greta Bergquist There’s a wideness in God’s mercy / I cannot find in my own ... More »
• Who Is Your Other? By Eliacín Rosario-Cruz, Mustard Seed Associates Interestingly enough, people sometimes get surprised and/or offended when they hear me say... More »
• God's Expansive Tent: An Easter Sermon on Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch by Nadia Bolz-Weber, House of All Sinners and Saints Acts 8:26-40 Then an angel of the Lord said to... More »
• Missional in Suburbia? by Joy Schroeder, Emerging Desert Cohort Just a few years ago, I could not imagine being asked to contribute to a... More »
• Community In The Country: A Personal Story by Jason Fowler, Wisely Woven / Sustainable Traditions I use to think the idea of intentional Christian community was a radical... More »

• How You Can Participate in MSA Mustard Seed Associates is on an exciting journey in which we hope you will participate. There are many ways in... More »
• Meeting Jesus in Lake City by Peter Ilgenfritz, University Congregational United Church of Christ, Seattle Peter tells this story to the group at the Friday evening... More »

• An Unorganized and Not-At-All-Comprehensive List of International Gardening Resources Sustainable Gardening Australia sustainable self-sufficiency gardening blog Green Harvest Australia Organic Pathways New Zealand Organic Gardening: An Introduction, Sustainable Living Programme NZ Best Green Blogs Sustainable... More »
• Gardening Resources Books Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening (Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale Press, 1981). Steve Solomon, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: Steve Solomon’s Complete... More »
• Photos of the Spirituality of Gardening workshop from Manual Sanchez, Ecclesia Houston The cross in the garden is the first thing you see when you walk... More »
• Birds, Spiders, and Prophets by Christine Sine Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God... More »
• To Garden With God by Christine Sine The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It... More »
• Earth, Teach Me to Remember Ute American Prayer This is a beautiful prayer that calls us to take notice of the earth and learn lessons from... More »
• Resources for May 2009 Books Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening (Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale Press, 1981). Steve Solomon, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: Steve Solomon’s Complete... More »
• Women and Men As Corn: Campesino Gathering in Nicaragua by Natanael Disla, Dominican Republic Last October I was sent to Nicaragua by the Dominican Republic Baptist Seminary (where I study)... More »
• Review of “The Gift of Good Land” by Wendell Berry by Judy Naegeli, MSA team Although I’ve been hearing the name Wendell Berry for years now, I confess that this essay... More »

• July 2009 Seed Sampler: Writing as Spiritual Discipline “God may this day be an empty page waiting for the words you write. Make of my heart a landing... More »
• Breathing in the Presence of God by Christine Sine I did not grow up writing prayers. In fact my early Christian experience was in a tradition that... More »
• Twitter as a Spiritual Discipline by Gerard Kelly, Bless Network UK, Crossroads International Church Amsterdam As reported in London’s Independent and around the world, Ireland’s... More »
• Surprised by Community: The Spirituality of Blogging By Tim Mathis, Relatively Faithful For someone writing about using technology in the practice of a spiritual discipline, I’m quite... More »
• March Mustard Seeds Calendar Whole Month | Lent 1-7 | Mutunga $2 Challenge 7 | Feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity 8 | International Women’s Day 10| Moon... More »
• Welcome to the Mustard Seeds Calendar 2009! by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz, MSA team Many of us have come to the realization that our daily religious devotion and creativity have... More »
• Kids in "Crackland" Our names are Kelly and Marcelo, both of us are 28 years old and we have been married for 18... More »
• Planting Post-Conference Mustard Seeds by Penny Carothers, Burnside Writers Collective Earlier this month hundreds of people gathered in Seattle for the New Conspirators conference. Most... More »
• So What Is a Fresh Expression? (And Other Key Questions…) by Rev. Dr. Steven Croft, Team Leader of Fresh Expressions UK So what is a fresh expression of church? For many years... More »
• Emergent Village and Full Communion by Dwight J. Friesen, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, “Mars Hill Graduate School“, Seattle, WA Toward an Understanding of Emergent Village Emergent... More »

• Missio Dei: The Idealism of a Messy Three-Year-Old By Mark Van Steenwyk www.missio-dei.com A few years ago, my wife and I, along with a handful of friends, started a church... More »
• Emerging Women Finding Their Voice By Julie Clawson, co-pastor of Via Christus Community Church To the Men of the Emerging Church: I wonder what the deal really... More »
• So What Is a Fresh Expression? (And Other Key Questions…) by Rev. Dr. Steven Croft, Team Leader of Fresh Expressions UK So what is a fresh expression of church? For many years... More »
• All Things Emerging Down Under from a conversation with Fuzz Kitto, Spirited Consulting The emerging church movement in Australia and New Zealand has two major paths.... More »
• Emergent Village and Full Communion by Dwight J. Friesen, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, “Mars Hill Graduate School“, Seattle, WA Toward an Understanding of Emergent Village Emergent... More »
• The Emerging Church in the UK – Personal Reflections by Ian Mobsby, Moot Community, Westminster, London, UK Background about the Emerging Church in the UK Because culture in the UK is... More »
• The New Conspirators: The Emerging Church: Touring the Emerging Stream by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates As we race into a very uncertain future, the Western Church is facing some daunting... More »

• Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! Manual Introduction By Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates The rest of the Manual is available FOR PURCHASE for only $10.00. “Once... More »
• Early House Churches by Shonnie Scott Shonnie Scott, one of the board members of MSA, is writing a dissertation on how the ministry of... More »
• Recession is Looming: How Can We Prepare? by Tom Sine, MSA team Waking to an Economic Hurricane “Global markets plunge as world leaders struggle to respond…” 1 The US... More »
• Living Simply with Kids By Ricci Kilmer When we first got married my husband and I had a simple Saturday morning tradition. We’d rent... More »
• MSA: A Network of Communities The Mustard Seed team is in the process of reimagining MSA more as a network of communities and individuals that... More »
• I am a Wasteland A Lenten Reflection by Lindsay Lackey I am a wasteland, desolate desert of rock and bramble. My stones do not nourish;... More »
• The Joy of Easter Sunday By Christine Sine Easter Sunday is a totally different experience from the agony of Good Friday. For some, the festivities begin... More »
• The New Conspirators - Modern Monasticism by Tom Sine God is doing something new through a new generation of conspirators that we can all learn from and... More »

• Learning to See Through the Eyes of the "Other" by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Reading the Bible With the Damned by Bob Ekblad was the book that began my... More »
• Coming of the Majority Future, Ready or Not! by Tom Sine, MSA team With the election of President Barack Obama, we all learned that there is a racial... More »
• Renewal of Hope and Readiness for Recession On November 4th, we witnessed not only the election of a new president of the United States, but a remarkable... More »
• Recession is Looming: How Can We Prepare? by Tom Sine, MSA team Waking to an Economic Hurricane “Global markets plunge as world leaders struggle to respond…” 1 The US... More »
• Lessons Learned from Church Disaster Plans by Penny Carothers   Following the colossal damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina,... More »
• Following Jesus in Uncertain Times by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Reportedly almost 80,000 people have lost their lives in the horrific cyclone that struck Myanmar... More »
• Preparing the Global Poor in Uncertain Times by Penny Carothers and Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Anticipating New Challenges Facing the Global Poor “The global food crisis has... More »
• Preparing the Middle Class For Life in Uncertain Times by Penny Carothers and Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Anticipating New Challenges Facing the Middle Class Bill Stevens has worked very hard... More »
• Hope Force Int'l: One Person Can Make a Difference by Jack and Cherie Minton, founders of Hope Force International Tsunamis… Hurricanes… Floods… Earthquakes… Fires… Most of us have found ourselves watching... More »

• Resources for Turbulent Times manual This is the resource page of the Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! recession response manual. Download the whole manual here. Economic Empowerment... More »
• Missional "Best Practices" for Turbulent Times from the Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! manual Goshen, Indiana: The pastor of Clinton Frame Mennonite Church has invited families who are... More »
• Dealing with swine flu in church from Dave Roberts, “Angels of Mercy” Christianity Magazine UK (September 2009), 31. Used with permission. It might sound like an obvious... More »
• Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! Manual Introduction By Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates The rest of the Manual is available FOR PURCHASE for only $10.00. “Once... More »
• Angels of Mercy by Dave Roberts, Christianity Magazine UK Used with permission As the traffic swarmed out of a soon-to-be-buffeted New Orleans, solitary cars drove... More »
• Reaching your community in a flu pandemic from Dave Roberts, “Angels of Mercy,” Christianity Magazine UK (September 2009). Used with permission. There are several practical things your church... More »
• The Cost of Living: How the global recession is killing the poor by Tomi Ajayi, Christianity Magazine UK Used with permission Lilian was self-employed, growing vegetables for export from her east-African country; the funds... More »
• A Celtic Community for Sustainable Spirituality and Life by Tom Sine, MSA Founder We seem to be racing headlong into increasingly uncertain times as we recover from the worse... More »

• Women's Activities in Agros Communities ©2007 by Agros International. Used with permission. Agros’ programs address the needs of women and children by creating a positive... More »
• Two Easily Ignored Stories by Megan Jones Ady RAKAI, UGANDA—“There are many child-led households in southern Uganda due to the high mortality rate from AIDS.” This... More »
• Submitting to the Healing of Love by Kristin Keen, Word Made Flesh ©2008 by Word Made Flesh. Used with permission. I had a vision at a recent... More »
• The World's Women Need Our Help! by Christine Sine, Mustard Seed Associates “The church’s challenge for the 20th century was the equality of women,” proclaimed the speaker... More »
• Book Review: Not for Sale By G. Stephen Goode, YWAM Thailand originally published as an Amazon Customer Review, March 9, 2007. Used with permission from the... More »
• Film Review: A Walk to Beautiful by Ricci Kilmer, Mustard Seed Associates I recently was invited to view a film called A Walk to Beautiful with some... More »
• A Prayer for the World's Women by Christine Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Jesus Christ, word made flesh, incarnate presence of God, You were born of a woman and... More »
• Emerging Women Finding Their Voice By Julie Clawson, co-pastor of Via Christus Community Church To the Men of the Emerging Church: I wonder what the deal really... More »

• Rethinking the Evils of Suburbia by Todd Hiestand, The Well I pastor a church community in Feasterville. Yes, Feasterville. That’s actually the name of our... More »
• The Real Santa Claus by Samantha Baker Evens, InnerCHANGE Cambodia As a parent at Christmastime, I am more fortunate than most. My family lives in... More »

• Building Community in a Multicultural Church by Efrem Smith, senior pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church I have the awesome privilege of being the Senior Pastor... More »

• Interview with Pastor James (Missional Church) MSA: Would you describe the Capitol Hill neighborhood? JK: Capitol Hill was “the suburbs” 100 years ago. Now it’s an inner-city... More »
• Abolishing Human Trafficking The Statistics Trafficking of persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. United... More »

• March 2009 Resources Books Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing Resources for Reconciliation (InterVarsity... More »

• Missional in Suburbia? by Joy Schroeder, Emerging Desert Cohort Just a few years ago, I could not imagine being asked to contribute to a... More »
• Rethinking the Evils of Suburbia by Todd Hiestand, The Well I pastor a church community in Feasterville. Yes, Feasterville. That’s actually the name of our... More »
• Suburban Missional: The Iceberg Underneath by Kathy Escobar, the refuge When Jesus sent his disciples out on mission, he told them to be poor, to take... More »
• Mustard Seed vs. Mega-church By Eileen Hansen, Trinity Lutheran Church In a religious landscape that celebrates the “mega,” Trinity Lutheran Church conceived and freed a... More »
• The New Conspirators: Missional Church The Missional Stream – Consider Moving Missional to the Center of Congregational Life by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates While the emerging... More »
• The New Conspirators: Mosaic Church: Intro to the Mosaic Stream by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates In the UK, more churches were planted in the last seven years than Starbucks were... More »
• Book Review of Alan Hirsch’s The Forgotten Ways The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Timothy Friend, Friends church pastor in California This review was originally written for the... More »
• Interview with Pastor James (Missional Church) MSA: Would you describe the Capitol Hill neighborhood? JK: Capitol Hill was “the suburbs” 100 years ago. Now it’s an inner-city... More »
• Life Covenant Church – A Missional Example by Tim Morey, Pastor Describe the small group of those who joined you at the beginning and the date you launched. Life... More »
• Integral Mission in Latin America by Tomas Yaccino La Red del Camino para la Misión Integral en America Latina In Latin America, a small but growing... More »

• Signs of a New Monasticism By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove The 20th century Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote that the life of “every Christian is signed with the... More »

• MSA's 18th Annual Celtic Prayer Retreat Restore the Rhythm | Rebuild the Soul | Renew the Call There are times when we need space . . . space... More »
• Photos of the Spirituality of Gardening workshop from Manual Sanchez, Ecclesia Houston The cross in the garden is the first thing you see when you walk... More »
• Mustard Seed Associates in 2009 As we look ahead to 2009, we find ourselves facing a spreading global recession that is putting growing numbers of... More »
• The New Conspirators! Report Our recent conference, The New Conspirators, was a great success. We brought together over 300 people from diverse backgrounds and... More »
• The New Conspirators > Festival of the Imagination by Eliacin Rosario-Cruz The New Conspirators…What in the World is God Doing? What in the world is God doing? God is conspiring... More »

• A Journey Into God's Resurrection-Created World An Easter Celebration Guide This Easter guide provides a focus on different areas of celebration for each of the seven weeks... More »
• Angels of Mercy by Dave Roberts, Christianity Magazine UK Used with permission As the traffic swarmed out of a soon-to-be-buffeted New Orleans, solitary cars drove... More »
• The Cost of Living: How the global recession is killing the poor by Tomi Ajayi, Christianity Magazine UK Used with permission Lilian was self-employed, growing vegetables for export from her east-African country; the funds... More »
• Resources for June 2009 Mark G. Brett, Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire (Sheffield Pheonix Press, 2008). Bob Ekblad, Reading the Bible... More »
• Resources for May 2009 Books Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening (Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale Press, 1981). Steve Solomon, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: Steve Solomon’s Complete... More »
• Resources for April 2009 Books Will and Lisa Samson, Justice in the ‘Burbs: Being in the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live (Grand Rapids, Mich.:... More »
• March Mustard Seeds Calendar Whole Month | Lent 1-7 | Mutunga $2 Challenge 7 | Feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity 8 | International Women’s Day 10| Moon... More »
• A Journey Into Wholeness: Lenten Reflection Guide This Lenten guide provides a focus on different areas of brokenness for each of the 5 weeks of Lent –... More »
• Resources for Lent 2009 from February 2009 Seed Sampler, “Justice at the Table” Books Cathy C. Campbell, Stations of the Banquet: Faith Foundations for Food Justice... More »
• Community Resources First of all, Tom was on the Steve Brown Etc. podcast on December 19, 2008. Listen here. Books Christine Sine is researching... More »

• Briefly, Eastern Influence on Celtic Saints by Judy Naegeli, Mustard Seed Associates Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath... More »
• Building Community in a Multicultural Church by Efrem Smith, senior pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church I have the awesome privilege of being the Senior Pastor... More »
• Litany for a Commitment to Unity by Rev. Helen Richmond, former National Director of Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Ministry of the Uniting Church in Australia VOICE 1: In... More »
• Lent and Easter in the Orthodox Christian Tradition By Denny Sellen, Seattle University Lent, literally “spring” in Anglo-Saxon, is not simply a preparation for the Feast of Easter,... More »
• Quest Church in Seattle, WA Quest Church in Seattle is an innovative multicultural church plant in Seattle that reaches out to their community in creative... More »
• Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN Sanctuary Covenant Church is an example of a Mosaic church plant that has created a richly multicultural community learning to... More »

• Connection to Land by Brent Lyons Lee, Urban Seed I work with dislocated indigenous people on the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Through... More »
• Learning to See Through the Eyes of the "Other" by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Reading the Bible With the Damned by Bob Ekblad was the book that began my... More »
• Who Is Your Other? By Eliacín Rosario-Cruz, Mustard Seed Associates Interestingly enough, people sometimes get surprised and/or offended when they hear me say... More »
• Sole-Less Shoes by Angel Huertas The other day, I was at the local bank making some transactions (it makes me sound... More »
• March 2009 Resources Books Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing Resources for Reconciliation (InterVarsity... More »
• Desperately Needed: More Outsiders--A Biblical Mandate for Cross-Cultural Missions by Craig Greenfield, Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor This article first appeared in the February 2009 issue of Lausanne World Pulse.... More »
• The Reality of Diversity by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz, MSA team “What do you mean by ‘just one’? I’m not choosing just one!” I told my wife... More »
• Coming of the Majority Future, Ready or Not! by Tom Sine, MSA team With the election of President Barack Obama, we all learned that there is a racial... More »
• Wanjiku’s Long Safari Adapted from a story by Father Joseph Donders, M.Afr. There is a story about a certain East African woman named... More »
• Racism Is In the Eye of the Beholder By David Park, Next Gener.Asian Church (.com) blogger Racism is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t say this as... More »

• Family, Embracing Brokenness, and Entering the Worship Circle by Aaron Strumpel My heart beats today with a faster pace than blood can flow My heart beats today with a fevered... More »

• The New Conspirators! Report Our recent conference, The New Conspirators, was a great success. We brought together over 300 people from diverse backgrounds and... More »
• Join the Conversation After reading The New Conspirators. What might be the consequences of inviting God to ignite our imaginations and those of the... More »
• Planting Post-Conference Mustard Seeds by Penny Carothers, Burnside Writers Collective Earlier this month hundreds of people gathered in Seattle for the New Conspirators conference. Most... More »
• Meeting Jesus in Lake City by Peter Ilgenfritz, University Congregational United Church of Christ, Seattle Peter tells this story to the group at the Friday evening... More »
• Reflections on The New Conspirators Conference By Jonathan Brink, Thrive Ministries Every once in a great while an event comes along that intrigues me enough that... More »

• Missio Dei: The Idealism of a Messy Three-Year-Old By Mark Van Steenwyk www.missio-dei.com A few years ago, my wife and I, along with a handful of friends, started a church... More »
• Signs of a New Monasticism By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove The 20th century Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote that the life of “every Christian is signed with the... More »
• The New Conspirators - Modern Monasticism by Tom Sine God is doing something new through a new generation of conspirators that we can all learn from and... More »

• A Journey Into God's Resurrection-Created World An Easter Celebration Guide This Easter guide provides a focus on different areas of celebration for each of the seven weeks... More »
• God of the Bountiful--A Harvest Prayer by Christine Sine God, we thank you for your harvest, which feeds us so many times each day. We are... More »
• Excerpts from the Celtic Retreat Liturgy God, you promise us a burden that is light and a load that is easy, You anoint us to... More »
• Photo Reflection of the Celtic Retreat We had a lovely weekend last month celebrating the Celtic spiritual traditions of prayer and worship, work and rest, community... More »
• Te Deum Laudamus Sts. Ambrose and Augustine, ca. 387 AD You are God: we praise you; You are the Lord: we acclaim you; You are the... More »
• It Took Jesus 1,000 Years to Die by Christine Sine, Godspace “It took Jesus a thousand years to die.” say Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker... More »
• Breathing in the Presence of God by Christine Sine I did not grow up writing prayers. In fact my early Christian experience was in a tradition that... More »
• Twitter as a Spiritual Discipline by Gerard Kelly, Bless Network UK, Crossroads International Church Amsterdam As reported in London’s Independent and around the world, Ireland’s... More »
• A Franciscan Blessing May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep... More »
• "Ronnie" Kisses Me by Rick Reynolds, Operation Nightwatch "Ronnie" was about the homeliest, smelliest, loudest homeless guy at Nightwatch in our Shelter... More »

• The Spiritual Discipline of Writing Sermons by the Rev. Mary Holder Naegeli Many years ago, our pastor was asked, “Why do you spend 20 hours per week... More »
• To Garden With God by Christine Sine The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It... More »
• Station 10 Litany: Let Justice Roll Down Like Water  From Stations of the Banquet, pp. 196-197Group 1: For your justice pouring as a mighty river from your heart,All: We thank you.You... More »
• The Journeys of Jesus: A Monthly Pilgrimage by Judy Naegeli, MSA team Although it has been said that Jesus of Nazareth never went more than 30 miles from... More »
• Welcome to the Mustard Seeds Calendar 2009! by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz, MSA team Many of us have come to the realization that our daily religious devotion and creativity have... More »

• October 2009 Seed Sampler: Turbulent Times--Ready or Not! It’s here! The recession response manual, Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! A Creative Response Manual 2010 to 2020 is... More »
• September 2009 Seed Sampler: MSA Update Every year, we devote one issue of the Seed Sampler to the happenings at MSA because all the other issues... More »
• August 2009 Seed Sampler: Pre-Christendom Christianity Dear Readers, Since its beginnings, MSA has always had a connection to the ancient Celtic form of Christianity. But we have... More »
• June 2009 Seed Sampler: Encountering the "Other" Dear readers, If I’m honest with myself, I can acknowledge that there are people out there in the world, sometimes quite... More »
• May 2009 Seed Sampler: The Spirituality of Gardening Genesis 2 says that God “planted” a garden. He didn’t speak it into being in this case; he knelt in... More »
• Gardening Resources Books Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening (Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale Press, 1981). Steve Solomon, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: Steve Solomon’s Complete... More »
• April 2009 Seed Sampler: Suburban Missional Church and Rural Intentional Community Is it just me, or do conversations surrounding community and mission seem to focus on expressions in urban settings? We... More »
• March 2009 Seed Sampler: Welcoming a Majority Future It is difficult for many white people to admit their privilege and dominance in society, especially American society. It is... More »
• February Seed Sampler: Lent, Easter, and Food Justice At the end of this month on the 25th, we come again to the liturgical season of Lent. During this... More »
• Station 10 Litany: Let Justice Roll Down Like Water  From Stations of the Banquet, pp. 196-197Group 1: For your justice pouring as a mighty river from your heart,All: We thank you.You... More »

• Community In The Country: A Personal Story by Jason Fowler, Wisely Woven / Sustainable Traditions I use to think the idea of intentional Christian community was a radical... More »
• Resources for Lent 2009 from February 2009 Seed Sampler, “Justice at the Table” Books Cathy C. Campbell, Stations of the Banquet: Faith Foundations for Food Justice... More »
• A Frenchwoman's Community Pilgrimage by Noemie Capdevila Everything started with an obligation. I had applied and committed to participate in a week of reflections on... More »
• Teenage Affluenza A video juxtaposing the affluence, but perceived hardship, of teens in Australia with the actual hardship of children all over... More »
• Seed Share: An interview with Catie Rosario-Kilmer ... More »
• Children and Consumer Faith by Cindy Spencer, Children & Youth Ministries, Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle Published originally in The Rubic, Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral,... More »
• Reflections on living simply after a Montana vacation by Pat Loughery My family recently returned to our suburban Seattle home from a refreshing eight-day vacation in rural Montana. We... More »
• What Living in Europe has Taught me About Living Simply by Rachelle Mee-Chapman In February 2008 our family of four moved from our six-bedroom communal home in Seattle, Washington to a... More »
• Preparing the Middle Class For Life in Uncertain Times by Penny Carothers and Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Anticipating New Challenges Facing the Middle Class Bill Stevens has worked very hard... More »

• A Franciscan Blessing May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep... More »
• "Ronnie" Kisses Me by Rick Reynolds, Operation Nightwatch "Ronnie" was about the homeliest, smelliest, loudest homeless guy at Nightwatch in our Shelter... More »
• AFRICA GREAT LAKES: Taking the initiative from violent actors by Cliff Kindy, Christian Peacemaker Teams Originally published at CPTnet on February 19, 2009. Used with permission. Through a series of exploration... More »
• L'Arche: International Community of Love by Judy Naegeli, Mustard Seed Associates, with Melody George “Communion is a to-and-fro of love; we give and receive mutually.” Jean... More »
• The Real Santa Claus by Samantha Baker Evens, InnerCHANGE Cambodia As a parent at Christmastime, I am more fortunate than most. My family lives in... More »
• What Recession Looks Like in Cambodia by Samantha Baker Evens of InnerCHANGE Cambodia A few people have asked me... More »
• Following Jesus in Uncertain Times by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Reportedly almost 80,000 people have lost their lives in the horrific cyclone that struck Myanmar... More »
• Preparing the Global Poor in Uncertain Times by Penny Carothers and Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates Anticipating New Challenges Facing the Global Poor “The global food crisis has... More »
• Racism Is In the Eye of the Beholder By David Park, Next Gener.Asian Church (.com) blogger Racism is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t say this as... More »
• The Native American Question: What Do European Christians Give Up of Their Culture(s)? By Terri LeBlanc, Executive Director of My People International and Chair of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies “What... More »

• Surprised by Community: The Spirituality of Blogging By Tim Mathis, Relatively Faithful For someone writing about using technology in the practice of a spiritual discipline, I’m quite... More »
• The Other Is My Neighbor by Greta Bergquist There’s a wideness in God’s mercy / I cannot find in my own ... More »
• God's Expansive Tent: An Easter Sermon on Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch by Nadia Bolz-Weber, House of All Sinners and Saints Acts 8:26-40 Then an angel of the Lord said to... More »
• Communities in Holland from Frank Mulder, Time to Turn Our new community house is almost finished! We have been painting and repairing for more... More »
• Freeing the Saints From Their Hallmark Holidays by Christine Sine, MSA team Robyn was angry and confused. She had just discovered that her much-beloved roly-poly red-robed Santa Claus... More »
• A Meeting For Discernment from Bruce Bishop, co-author of Practicing Discernment Together Most traditional meetings are task-oriented. There is limited time to meet, so there... More »
• Submitting to the Healing of Love by Kristin Keen, Word Made Flesh ©2008 by Word Made Flesh. Used with permission. I had a vision at a recent... More »

• Review of “The Gift of Good Land” by Wendell Berry by Judy Naegeli, MSA team Although I’ve been hearing the name Wendell Berry for years now, I confess that this essay... More »
• How to Help the Most Vulnerable By Rick Reynolds, Operation Night Watch   When times are bad, people dream up survival strategies—ways to live... More »

• Justice at Christ's Table By Ricci Kilmer, from the Revolution Starts at Home blog Envision your local church—the altar, pew, or whatever space in which... More »

• The New Conspirators: Missional Church The Missional Stream – Consider Moving Missional to the Center of Congregational Life by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates While the emerging... More »
• The New Conspirators: Mosaic Church: Intro to the Mosaic Stream by Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates In the UK, more churches were planted in the last seven years than Starbucks were... More »

• October 2009 Seed Sampler: Turbulent Times--Ready or Not! It’s here! The recession response manual, Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! A Creative Response Manual 2010 to 2020 is... More »
• September 2009 Seed Sampler: MSA Update Every year, we devote one issue of the Seed Sampler to the happenings at MSA because all the other issues... More »
• August 2009 Seed Sampler: Pre-Christendom Christianity Dear Readers, Since its beginnings, MSA has always had a connection to the ancient Celtic form of Christianity. But we have... More »
• July 2009 Seed Sampler: Writing as Spiritual Discipline “God may this day be an empty page waiting for the words you write. Make of my heart a landing... More »
• June 2009 Seed Sampler: Encountering the "Other" Dear readers, If I’m honest with myself, I can acknowledge that there are people out there in the world, sometimes quite... More »
• May 2009 Seed Sampler: The Spirituality of Gardening Genesis 2 says that God “planted” a garden. He didn’t speak it into being in this case; he knelt in... More »
• April 2009 Seed Sampler: Suburban Missional Church and Rural Intentional Community Is it just me, or do conversations surrounding community and mission seem to focus on expressions in urban settings? We... More »
• March 2009 Seed Sampler: Welcoming a Majority Future It is difficult for many white people to admit their privilege and dominance in society, especially American society. It is... More »
• February Seed Sampler: Lent, Easter, and Food Justice At the end of this month on the 25th, we come again to the liturgical season of Lent. During this... More »
• January Seed Sampler: International Flavors of Community and Cohousing Seed Smile | Marzipan Day MSC09 | January Holidays Seed Story | A Frenchwoman’s Community Pilgrimage by Noemie Capdevila Liturgy | Thursday Evening... More »

• Introducing "The Revolution Starts At Home" By Ricci Kilmer, Mustard Seed Associates I read lots of really good books about simplicity, ecology, raising children, etc., that really... More »
• that's right, MSA has a new website! Yes, you are in the right place. This is the new online home of Mustard Seed Associates. We’ve done some pruning... More »

• Freeing the Saints From Their Hallmark Holidays by Christine Sine, MSA team Robyn was angry and confused. She had just discovered that her much-beloved roly-poly red-robed Santa Claus... More »
• Not the World - Just Camdem By Danny Kam, Azusa Pacific University  I... More »

• The Spiritual Discipline of Writing Sermons by the Rev. Mary Holder Naegeli Many years ago, our pastor was asked, “Why do you spend 20 hours per week... More »