Scattered throughout Scripture are variations on the saying that “all flesh is grass” or, as Psalm 103:15-16 puts it, “As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, its place knows it no more.” The image has come to me often these days. It came as I helped my father join my mother in assisted living …
Who am I? Who are we as a people? We all ask this question in relationship to family, friends and community. To answer, we look for help outside ourselves. Yet the search on our journey from adolescence to adulthood remains largely an internal search for self-identity …
Whether we like it or not, we are political beings. The important question is how we live out our political life. And more important, as Nelson Kraybill makes clear, is where our allegiance lies …
I love my country. Some readers may be encouraged to hear me say that. Others may wonder if I have lost my moorings as a Mennonite-Anabaptist …
Thousands of miles separate the Colombian Mennonite Church (IMCOL) and Mennonite Church USA. But a common struggle for greater faithfulness bonds these churches in ways that bring them as close as the heartbeat of Christ …
Philadelphia Praise Center (PPC) and Nations Worship Center, two Franconia Mennonite Conference congregations, call the same South Philadelphia neighborhood home …
This is a story about a Mennonite church and an American flag. It’s a story with no elves or fairies but a tale of people helping those who wander the earth …
Soon after Living Water Community Church relocated to a Chicago street corner where a gang shooting occurred in 2001, the church discovered that the way to young people’s lives is sometimes through their stomachs …
Fault lines appeared within Mennonite Church USA last fall as presidential politics polarized the nation. Sentiments were so strong they sometimes stretched relationships within families and congregations …
