One morning I reflected on where my faith and ethnicity have intersected. I chose to be a Mennonite after having left a more fundamentalist-leaning church. Before that, I left the Roman Catholic Church …

Evidence of divisions and polarization is all around us. You can read it in the papers, watch it on the news, hear it from friends—and sometimes even experience it in the church. Historians and politicians talk about the loss of civility in our culture and society …

Fifty years ago, my youngest brother, David, was born with Down syndrome. That was in the late 1950s, a time when there was not a lot of knowledge and understanding about disabilities in the schools, the church or in society at large …

We have just been through a festive time of year, with all manner of family get-togethers …

What do we have to learn from a 19th-century Russian nationalist who was a gambling addict and spent time in a Siberian prison for political dissent?

Leadership styles change when a congregation calls a new pastor. This is because no two leaders have the same dispositions, gifts and preparation for the role …

Life is just one big continuing education opportunity, if one is of that mind set. There are many opportunities throughout life to continue one’s education, and one need not enter a program, attend a seminar or go to classes to expand one’s knowledge …

From his jail cell in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter to religious leaders in Birmingham, Ala. They had criticized him for his part in a nonviolent protest against racial segregation in that city …