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[continued from part 1] Out of a general respect for anyone who seeks to serve the inner city (I grew up in the housing projects of Brooklyn’s equivalent to Kensington), and with an excitement for the church’s renewed dedication to…

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Categories: Gender, Race

The settlement house movement is the foundation of public welfare in the United States. Beginning in the early 19th century within the immigrant enclaves of New York City and Chicago, this movement was led predominately by white middle class Christians…

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Categories: Ministry, Poverty, Race

Good stuff from both of you, Ryan and Jimmy! Maybe my perspective is a generational thing, and you younger folks have transcended monolithic cultures of origin.  Or maybe it’s a generational thing, and you younger folks simply have a different experience and…

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Even as I was reporting Bart Campolo’s challenging questions on cross-cultural community last week, I had the beginnings of a response already drafted. It made sense to save it for a later post, and now that Jimmy McCarty—spontaneously and unsolicited—made one…

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My mother is an immigrant from Korea who has worked as a janitor in a hospital and waitress in a Korean restaurant. My father is a white guy from a small town in Tennessee who has been a soldier and…

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Bart Campolo gave me a call recently about our ongoing blog conversation on New Monastics and race. I want to present his thoughts for response—even though I don’t want to agree with all of what he said. Actually, it’s his idea that…

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I am grateful to Jason and Vonetta Storbakken for sparking this conversation and for all those who have responded. For about four years now, my husband and I have continually struggled…

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Greetings from Brazil! Rosalee and I have been following this exchange closely even if from afar – or à distância. A few of our friends in the U.S. — including…

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I’ve been following the recent online conversation about racial reconciliation and the New Monastics rather closely. Why? Because it is a conversation whose time has come.  I honestly believe that [...]

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The very first mark of the New Monastic movement is to relocate to the abandoned places of the empire.  However, after quick research, most of the social justice-geared intentional communities I found were either [...]

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Las Caras Lindas de mi Gente Negra,
Son un desfile de melaza en flor,
Que cuando pasan frente a mi se alegra,
De su negrura todo el corazón 

-Tite Curet Alonso

I was delighted to be asked to participate in this conversation, even though I am not a leader or spokesperson for the New Monastic movement.  I am using the…

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Jason and Vonetta Storbakken have extended a gracious and hopeful invitation to public dialogue about reconciliation’s challenge for New Monasticism. I’d like to say in public what I’ve already said to them privately: Thank [...]

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In addition to the steps mentioned in my previous post, I also wanted to share some things that go beyond our local community to the broader New Monastic movement and…

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Vonetta and Jason, first I want you to know that I am deeply grateful for the conversation you’ve invited and stirred with our private conversations and now

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In August 2006, before having ever heard the term “new monasticism,” my husband, Jason, and I founded Radical Living, an intentional community in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. When I (Vonetta) was 12 years old, I emigrated from Guyana to [...]

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