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Re: Confronting The Enemy Within

eliacin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:44:59 -0000

well said.

Re: Emergent Village 2.0 - Whatcha think? No, seriously what do you think?

eliacin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:25:16 -0000

Re: New Monasticism and White Privilege

eliacin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:38:25 -0000

Aurora,

I don't know you so I hope that you are just having a bad day today, and that you are not as bitter as you sound here. Only that way I can justify the fact that you made my point even stronger. Take it easy sister.

Anyway thanks for remind me once again, the reason why these subject of conversation and conversion are so important via your comment.

Have a very blessed Christmas.

Re: Race Around the Web

eliacin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:25:55 -0000

Yet another interesting and provocative piece about race and ethnicity, this time about the lack of it in the new monasticism phenomenon

Read here -
http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/08/...

Paz y esperanza,

Eliacin

Re: redeux (updated)

eliacin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:55:53 -0000

Give a shout when you are in town. It would be good to sit down and conspire.

Paz y esperanza,
Eliacin

Re: group of white men around the age of 30 challenge “everything”

eliacin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:47:20 -0000

Hi Julie,

I'm glad you are commenting here. I do not know you, but I know of you, mostly as one of the strong voices behind the emerging women movement.

Your point is well taken there should be space for everyone to speak and share their ideas and passions. But that is assuming that the platform is level and equal for all. So all it takes is for people to have good ideas and be passionate and they will be heard. Well, it is not that easy in our society that listen to the white, the male and the heterosexual.

While I agree, there are many white 30somethings guys with lots of good ideas and passions, so are many women and men of color whom lack the platform to be listen. So it is not that they don't have the voice, it is that the system is deaf to their voices. So there got to be a challenge the MO of the system. One way to for white males to speak less and listen more.To stop speaking on behalf of the"other" and actually listen to the "other." Another way is following as Mark states here, is to make honest partnership and collaboration with voices of color. Not just the current token sprinkling of color we see commonly.

Re: group of white men around the age of 30 challenge “everything”

eliacin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:58:45 -0000

Jarrod, while I admit I do not know your family history of oppression, at different points in history some of the groups you mentioned, jewish and irish among many others, have been able to play the "white card" and benefit from white privilege while not the same with people of color. So while I do not what to dismiss the oppression suffered by many other brothers and sisters, things are different when the oppressed taste a bit of power use it to oppress based on a new social construct, be it by choice or not.

While I agree with you and I know Mark agree "minorities" have their own voice, in our context that voice in many instances get muffled by those who want to speak on behalf of. In our context the voice of the "minorities" fall into deaf ears of a society that only listen to those in the higher stratums of power. The discourse for diversity is very popular but there is minimal genuine interest to hear what people of color have to say.

Re: group of white men around the age of 30 challenge “everything”

eliacin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:35:29 -0000

I'm a brown latino guy, is there room for another one of us or have the token quota been fulfilled already?

Re: Apply this to Emergent, Emerging, Missional, New Monastic or any expression of contemporary Christianity

eliacin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:34:24 -0000

Certainly Mark - good call.

Re: Eliacín in Sojourners Magazine

eliacin — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:25:03 -0000

I take ridays for family and house projects. I'll be offline most of
the day. I'll get back to you soon.

Peace.
Eliacin Rosario-Cruz
Community & Program Catalyst
Mustard Seed Associates
www.msainfo.org

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mustard seed associates - www.msainfo.org

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Re: New JM Feature: Video Comments

eliacin — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:12:21 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Everything Must Change & Submergent # 1

eliacin — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:22:04 -0000

I'm having problems wih my wi-fi connection at the house. So I'll be
offline for most of the weekend.

I will get back to you early next week.

Peace.
Eliacin Rosario-Cruz
Community & Program Catalyst
Mustard Seed Associates
www.msainfo.org

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community & program catalyst
mustard seed associates - www.msainfo.org

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Re: A Mountain of Bones: Being White in USAmerica

eliacin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:11:59 -0000

Mark, as a brown brother I want to applaud your honesty and openness.

By the way just like in Ezekiel, I can hear the rumble of the drums, the songs and the dance of the bones coming back with life.

Re: This week: The New Conspirators

eliacin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:59:34 -0000

Somebody gotta pray for me, I'm putting up with Mark for the whole weekend.

Mark - how'bout an urban hike thru downtown seattle on sunday?

Re: Un Pentecostés Emergente

eliacin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:59:18 -0000

Mark,

No sabia que tenias tan buen dominio del español! :-)

Me parece interesante este projecto de establecer una relacion con la comunidad hispanoparlante.

Sabes que tienes mi apoyo.

Nos vemos pronto.

Paz,
Eliacin

Re: 7 Flicks that Subvert

eliacin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:51:14 -0000

The Take - http://www.thetake.org/index.cfm
Horizontalism at it's best.

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale. With The Take, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's most outspoken journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller No Logo, champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century

Re: Endorsements?

eliacin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:30:26 -0000

Mark,

My first gut feeling is no endorsements. But then my second gut feeling is - if there are endorsements it should be from those in the community who are using the breviary right now oppose to the practice to gather names of "guru's" and "big names" to pump up the selling.

I'm looking fwrd to it.

Paace.
E.

Re: Some personal rambling as I prepare for the Black Hills

eliacin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:45:14 -0000

My prayers for discernment are with you and Amy as you live in the tension of living in "alterna-tivity" (alternative creativity) inside the belly of the empire.

Peace.
Eliacin

Re: Neo Monastic Bloggerama list

eliacin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:27:07 -0000

The Mustard Seed House is an intergenerational Christian Community in Seattle.

www.mustardseedhouse.wordpress.com