The Mustard Seed House (MSH)

1. 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 [...]
2. A Good Weekend
   We have had quite an adventurous weekend at the Mustard Seed House.  Saturday morning we braved the cold and the snow (or at least threatened snow) to get out and plant the cool season garden - cauliflowers, cabbages, broccoli & greens all went into the ground and are obviously shivering under the unexpectedly cold burst [...]
3. Christ Is Risen Indeed
   For the secular world Easter is over and done but for us who live into God's resurrection world the season has just begun. Yesterday we celebrated with a feast and a festival at the Mustard Seed House We brought together a great group of people Read liturgy, sang of the resurrection and with Catie's leadership decorated a banner. We [...]
4. Easter Thoughts to ponder and live
   The world has already been turned upside down; that's what Easter is all about. It isn't a matter of waiting until God eventually does something at the end of time. God has brought his future, his putting-his-world into rights future, into the presence of Jesus of Nazareth and he wants that future to be implicated [...]
5. Praying with Missio Dei
   One of the blessings of grassroot communities is to be able to collaborate and support other communities in the fringes living out and embracing God's dream. Missio Dei is one of those communities - Missio Dei is a church–but not a conventional church. It is to most churches what a tangerine is to a regular [...]
6. full house
    As we get ready for The New Conspirators Conference (AKA Festival of the Imagination) our friends beginning to  arrive. Last night we enjoyed a delicious soup and homemade bread with the company of our kiwi friend Mark Pierson. Mark is one of the pioneers alt. worship, emerging church leaders. Tomorrow I'll (Eliacin) be picking up Mark [...]
7. Monks, Community & Rule of Life
   Christine writes about our dreams and vision for Mustard Seed Associates, the Mustard Seed House and the Celtic Community Project - Monks, Community & Rule of Life « Godspace Yesterday the Boston Globe printed a great article The Unexpected Monks, on the move towards monasticism by many evangelicals. It is something that resonates very deeply with me [...]
8. The unexpected monks
   The unexpected monks - The Boston Globe New Monasticism is part of a broader movement stirring at the margins of American evangelicalism: Evangelicals disillusioned with a church they view as captive to consumerism, sectarian theological debates, and social conservatism. Calling themselves the "emerging church" or "post-evangelicals," these Christians represent only a small proportion of the approximate [...]
9. slow down week jan. 13-19
   
10. Christmas, Advent & Epiphany - a time to celebrate
    Finally I have gotten around to uploading my Advent and Christmas photos. It was a real season of celebration for all of us at the Mustard Seed House. We held an open house for friends near and far, with lots of Christmas goodies, and carol singing. Next e held an Advent celebration in which [...]