When our youth several years ago made use of the initials WWJD, maybe we should have seized the moment to lead them into the 21st century instead of letting the initials be turned into T-shirts, bracelets or necklaces. Our youth were perhaps expressing our theology better than we do and in a more up-to-date form …
Mennonite Central Committee has been using Jesus’ saying about new wineskins as the metaphor for a massive reorganization process …
Real families in our community (and in yours, no doubt) are picking up streams of wisdom, cultural practices and strands of diverse faith traditions that rarely intertwined with such intensity at the local level until recent times …
In November I will retire from 36 years of congregational (23 years) and churchwide (13 years) leadership. Here are some observations …
I still remember how impressed I was when I first read the “True evangelical faith” text by Menno Simons …
Friday is that long anticipated sixth day of the week. It signals a transition from the routine of work to the respite of the weekend …
I arrived in San José, Calif., almost two years to the day after I met a homeless man named Ken who changed my life …
A member in our older adult Sunday school class expressed surprise that women traveled with Jesus and the “twelve,” although this is recorded prominently several times in the Gospels …
