A couple of weeks back the Guardian had a couple of articles on co-housing and communal living… we’ve always been interested in the co-housing idea and there was some interesting stuff in the articles… mainly on how hard it is to start a co-housing project. Anyway as time is too short to sya anymore now, [...]
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Boy with the purple hat #1, originally uploaded by Matt & Polly.
I’ve recently been re-reading From Brokenness to Community by Jean Vanier, the founder of L’Arch. It is a great little book based on lectures he gave at Harvard, and is one of the best books I’ve read on the area of community. So I [...]
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A while back I finally got round to reading Finding Sanctuary by Abbot Christopher Jamison, the Abbot from Worth Abbey that gained a lot of attention through the BBC TV’s ‘The Monastery’ a few years back. I really enjoyed it and in particular welcomed the chapter on ‘community’, which starts to explore some of what [...]
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Reimagining community – with Tom Sine*
An evening to explore community in conversation with Tom Sine, author of The New Conspirators and founding member of Mustard Seed House
7.45pm | Thurs 25th Sept
244 Iffley Road | Oxford
Space is limited – to reserve a place email house244@gmail.com
hosted by the community at House 244
* Please note that the main [...]
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The CMS Crowther Centre regularly welcomes experienced mission thinkers and practitioners to help reflection and learning… and one of the things the community house we are part of will be doing is hosting these thinkers – known as the missiologist in residence…
The first such missiologist to join us will be Rene Padilla (‘South American [...]
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We’ve talked about it… we’ve read about it… we’ve even dreamed about it… and it’s been a while in the making, but it is now happening… we are moving into a community house!
As of this weekend we will be living intentionally in community – together we will be 7 adults and 2 babies – based [...]
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Just read this at the Mustard Seed House blog – article by Christine Sine about living in community, which resonates with my thinking… seeing community as essential to mission and discipleship:
Noemie did not grow up with a Christian background, but since her time in DC where she had opportunity to speak at length on how [...]
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