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Coming Home to the Advent Story - The First Podcast is Here

Story by Mary September Music by Tara Ward, The Opiate Mass and Church of the Beloved Reflection by Dr. Chelle Stearns, Seattle School of Theology and Psychology Seattle WA Meditation by Christine Sine, Mustard Seed Associates. This meditation contains the text for this years Advent meditation video Come Home to God Produced by Ryan Marsh, Church of the Beloved Listen now: Or right click this link and save to your computer: Advent Podcast Week One This is the first ...

Come Home with Us for Advent

Advent begins on Sunday and I wanted to make sure that you are aware of all the exciting things MSA has planned for the season. Our theme this year is Coming Home: Uncovering our Roots in the Advent Story. Yesterday I posted a new Advent mediation video to introduce the season. Once again it features the music of Celtic musician Jeff Johnson. I ...

A New Season Has Begun

-- Christine Sine -- The year is coming to a close and here at MSA we are already aware of new things in the air, a new season of blossom and fruitfulness as we prepare for the year ahead. This has been a year for laying strong foundations and putting stakes in the ground. MSA aspires to become a centre for imagination ...

Are followers of Jesus expected to be changemakers?

-- Tom Sine -- Recently when I attended the SOCAP Conference in San Francisco that has an unusual mission..."Accelerating the Good Economy!" I was one of some 1,900 participants. Most of the participants were social innovators or those that wanted to be plus social investors including representatives from the Bill and Melinda Gates and the Rockefeller Foundations. I can't remember ever being ...

To Everything...There is a Season

– Andy Wade – Sitting in my office, gazing into my garden sanctuary, it would be easy to be disheartened today. The skies are gray, rain is falling, and the garden is turning brown, crying out for serious care before the winter months. What happened to that amazing pallet of color splashed across the backyard? Now, dead sunflowers tower like brown skeletons, ...

Too Big For Their Britches

-- Andy Wade -- From climate change to economic development, women are being touted as the solution to many of our world's biggest problems. Economist Brad DeLong states, "Only with the coming of female literacy and artificial means of birth control can a society maintain both a slowly-growing or stable population and a substantial edge in median standard of living over ...

Are you ready for an urban future?

-- Tom Sine -- By 2030 nearly 5 billion of us will live in cities. In fact the future of the next generation who live on this planet are likely to be urban dwellers according to Charles Montgomery in "The Secret Of the World's Happiest Cities." In the Guardian November 1, 2013. After World War II Americans were offered two new social ...

The Roof is Up!

-- Christine Sine -- Last weekend Tom and I made another trip to the Mustard Seed Village. For the first time I had a sense of what this beautiful building will look like. The promise of the dream is more substantial than it has ever been. Walking around the building and standing on the roof gave me an impression, for the first ...

Coming Home to the Advent Story – The First Podcast is Here

November 30, 2013

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Come Home with Us for Advent

November 27, 2013

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A New Season Has Begun

November 21, 2013

– Christine Sine – The year is coming to a close and here at MSA we are already aware of new things in the air, a new season of blossom and fruitfulness as we prepare for the year ahead. This has been a year for laying strong foundations and putting stakes in the ground. MSA […]

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Are followers of Jesus expected to be changemakers?

November 20, 2013

– Tom Sine – Recently when I attended the SOCAP Conference in San Francisco that has an unusual mission…”Accelerating the Good Economy!” I was one of some 1,900 participants. Most of the participants were social innovators or those that wanted to be plus social investors including representatives from the Bill and Melinda Gates and the […]

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To Everything…There is a Season

November 11, 2013

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Too Big For Their Britches

November 7, 2013

– Andy Wade – From climate change to economic development, women are being touted as the solution to many of our world’s biggest problems. Economist Brad DeLong states, “Only with the coming of female literacy and artificial means of birth control can a society maintain both a slowly-growing or stable population and a substantial edge […]

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Are you ready for an urban future?

November 5, 2013

– Tom Sine – By 2030 nearly 5 billion of us will live in cities. In fact the future of the next generation who live on this planet are likely to be urban dwellers according to Charles Montgomery in “The Secret Of the World’s Happiest Cities.” In the Guardian November 1, 2013. After World War […]

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The Roof is Up!

November 1, 2013

– Christine Sine – Last weekend Tom and I made another trip to the Mustard Seed Village. For the first time I had a sense of what this beautiful building will look like. The promise of the dream is more substantial than it has ever been. Walking around the building and standing on the roof […]

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Sharing Economy – redeux

October 28, 2013

– by Andy Wade – Originally posted in May, 2011 This past week, Christine wrote two posts on her blog, Godspace, about collaborative consumption and the new shared economy. These are great (and challenging) posts worthy of a read. I’m challenged by the fact that the world seems ahead of much of the church in […]

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The Value of Building Slowly

October 22, 2013

October MSA Imaginings This last weekend Tom and I visited Camano Island where the cross beams on our first building are being installed. It is another small but exciting milestone, but progress seems so slow. Yet because of that slowness it is all the more valuable and the unexpected rewards of new friends, new vision […]

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