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Old wine, new songs

Ten years ago, Christianity Today carried an article entitled “The Triumph of the Praise Songs: How Guitars Beat Out the Organ in the Worship Wars.” Author Michael Hamilton described how contemporary worship music styles were winning out over more traditional hymnody in many congregations …

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The broken body of Christ

“The body of Christ, broken for you.” Communion draws us into brokenness. We don’t turn and run from this torn body. We don’t hide the wounds with a Band-Aid. At the Lord’s Table we can’t help but wait with brokenness …

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The church and the magazine business

Running a magazine is a business. Running churchwide agencies and colleges is big business. Congregations pay attention to labor laws for their employees, budget for operating expenses and decide how to depreciate assets …

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

And then there were three

The wife of a recent seminary graduate on a service assignment in east Africa emailed me a couple months ago …

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

Heavens

Poem When in September 1882 a fragment rivaled the sun as it fell past the sun, hit perihelion, grazed the day with its light as

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

Prayerfully present

A transformation from unhappiness to gratitude I stifle a gag as I open the door to the chicken house. My nose reacts as if suddenly

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The years ahead

4 course corrections for the Mennonite church Asked to give a talk on “the years ahead,” felt daunting. I’m in my mid-80s, and I was

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The church and economics after Christendom

Brief theological considerations This article was originally written and published in German as “Christ und Wirtschaft,” Der Mennonit. Internationales mennonitisches Gemeindeblatt 26/11 (November 1973): 161-162.

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The business of church

Consider how business theory applies to the church. Some believe it is the definitive model of how to do church. Others are more skeptical. The church is in the world and submits (hopefully with eyes wide open) to some of the basic laws of earthly economics, but it is not of the world …

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May 5, 2009
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