This past Sunday I had the chance to visit and hang out with the folks at Church of the Sojourners in the Mission district of San Francisco, CA. I happened upon this community last year at the Ekklesia Project gathering where the Sojourners were presenting on Christian community. They are very similar to other Christian communities around the United States like Simple Way in Phillly and Reba Place or JPUSA in Chicago.
        Unlike Reba Place, Sojourners does not live on a common purse. Instead the Covenant members commit to live on an allowance, after paying for necessities like healthcare etc. They tithe everything else. Like most of these new monastic communities, hospitality is at the core of who they are and one of the most important ways they express their love for God. I was a welcome recipient of this hospitality last Sunday as I ate some fish tacos with a few people from the Double Deuce house (as Ryan calls it anyway), went to a small meeting where I learned more about the life that Sojo members live and finally as I broke bread with the community at their Sunday worship gathering.