The ‘Wild honey” Christian Community, is part of a larger trend (think progression, not trendy) in developing authentic, in and out-focused true community.
The New Monasticism
A fresh crop of Christian communities is blossoming in blighted urban settings all over America.
| posted 09/02/2005 09:45 a.m.
“How can you worship a homeless Man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?” said the sign outside St. Edward’s Cathedral in Philadelphia. Inside, a group of 40 homeless families were joined by students from Eastern University to protest the eviction of women and their children from the abandoned Kensington neighborhood church. In 1996, the story was all over the news as a community activist group and a crowd of Eastern students fought the eviction by living in the church, sleeping on pews, and worshiping each Sunday. Shane Claiborne and other students left Eastern’s campus in St. Davids, drove the 20 miles into Philly, and unpacked their things in the nave.
At first, it was a shock to live among the homeless, Claiborne says. But face to face with poverty, stereotypes quickly broke down. During those fall days, as the stone building grew colder each night, the students began to rethink Gospel passages about the poor being blessed and doing “unto the least of these.”
After the Jump, check out more of this article for more on this type of community building
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