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All stakeholders should be at the table

Speaking Out column The Executive Board of Mennonite Church USA met in San Antonio Feb. 8-9 and passed a resolution calling for a unified churchwide

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008

What is emergent?

For some time now we have been publishing references to the emergent church—also called the emerging church. I’ve been wondering what it was and am still not sure anyone knows. Yet the language is creeping into our lexicon, and so maybe it would be good to describe why—and from whence it comes …

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008

When prayer doesn’t work

In my spirituality, I know there is absolutely no reason to believe prayer isn’t heard. Yet in our humanity there are private, humbling moments when we wonder. I found comfort in understanding that prayer, like life—even at its simplest—is still so intricate and interrelated …

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008

Doing less smudging

We’re wounded even before we take our first breath. That’s because we have parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins and more. We’re born into and shaped by their wounds. Then many of us have children. And pass the wounds forward …

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008

Search, click, give

Interest in charitable giving may have increased over the last decade, but so has the influence of consumerism. Corporations have recognized both trends and created avenues for people to give while getting …

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008

My ensemble experience

At my wife’s urging, I joined a choral ensemble. I did not join because I have any singing talent—quite the opposite. I joined because I thought I might be able to improve myself without being too big of an anchor tied around the necks of the other choir members. Or at least my wife thought so. I was not convinced …

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008

Radical ecumenism digs in the dirt

When people talk about ecumenism, it usually refers to something church leaders do. But our congregation’s summer morning of ecumenism had more to do with the ordinary—the everyday—not an annual gathering. It was, literally, about grass and about roots …

The Mennonite | Isaac S. Villegas

June 3, 2008

Joining the Anabaptist conspirators

Activists found in four streams: emerging, missional, mosaic, monastic God is doing something new through a new generation that has a distinctly Anabaptist accent in

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008

God empowers—we serve

It was a spectacular display. Fireworks and the sound of a violent wind took the people by surprise and turned a typical celebration into an unforgettable event. Today we are still drawn to those amazing signs of Pentecost, and reenact them in our worship …

The Mennonite

June 3, 2008
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