http://www.culpeperhouse.org Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:07:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shane Claiborne (author of the Irresistible Revolution) and Chris Haw’s new book “Jesus for President” just came out a few months ago. It’s a book that insightfully seeks to grapple with the question, “How do we navigate our allegiance to state and our allegiance to Christ, especially when they ... http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2008/06/17/jesus-for-president-in-dc/ By May 31st our house on Culpeper street will be closed. If you are interested in living in community, please visit http://www.dc.newmonastics.org/ and join the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/dc-area-community-of-communities to contact numerous community homes across the DC area. And if you're a person newly arriving to the DC area, please ... http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2008/03/30/culpeper-house-closing/ Over the next few months we will be losing some of the members of our community...  Josh and Sarah are returning to Florida to be with their families, Ryan is planning to move into an apartment with his brother, and Sarita will be leaving for Uganda. Times of transition provide ... http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2008/02/27/transitions-at-culpeper-house/ Hey Readers, Please help Sarita Hartz to win about $5,000 in trips and prizes for her upcoming journey to Uganda. You would be doing her and many children in Uganda a great blessing by following the below directions. It only takes a few clicks. If you don't know Sarita Hartz, there's some great ... http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2008/01/16/see-below/ Happy New Year!!! A friend of Sarita's is working to help a refugee family -of five- from Burma resettle in Virginia. While we do not yet have full details about the family, we are planning to collect donations at the house. Please feel free to drop items ... http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2008/01/05/because-were-all-for-giving/ You're invited to a very special Wednesday dinner and Christmas celebration.  It will be a relaxed time to talk and share with friends, listen to Christmas music, gorge yourself, and celebrate the birth of 8lb. 6oz. baby Jesus. We'll provide meat and mashed potatoes and gravy.  Please pick an item to bring ... http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2007/12/14/its-a-culpeper-christmas/ Our sister community in Southeast Washington's Anacostia Neighborhood has asked everyone to go to http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/ah_change_the_world/text/0,,HGTV_30676_65470,00.html and vote for HGTV to help cleanup their neighborhood. http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2007/11/19/vote-for-our-sister-communitys-neighborhood/ Because many of us will be out of town, there will be no dinner Wednesday night.  Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2007/11/19/no-dinner-this-week/ Because of Halloween, we're cancelling dinner tomorrow. Please pass the word.  Hope to see everyone next week! http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2007/10/30/no-dinner-halloween/ Well, what are we gonna do now that the city of Herndon has failed the least of these? Well, the answer came to me in the form of a Razoo blog post. So, now Arlington is stepping it up in support of immigrants.... what if the started to look for ways to ... http://www.culpeperhouse.org/2007/09/22/herndon-day-labor-closed-now-what/