david-nathanael-jones

There's this idea forming in my head that seems to move toward the answer the nagging question: what am I going to do with my life?

Basically, my idea has to do with trying to implement a form of neo-monasticism in an urban environment sometime within the next ten years. What I mean by "neo-monastic" is this: monastic in the sense of theologically based community living, and not just living in the sense of shared space but living in the sense of producing sufficient surplus to maintain the community itself. So this community would live and work together within some sort of shared space.

In my dream, the community would be a growing and replacating community that seeks specifically to invite the structurally oppressed into its midst--to become a part of the community itself, and to leave equipped to form such a community elsewhere.

I'll have to write more on it later... but I'm trying to get a start on articulating it here.