A recent audit of women in leadership in Mennonite Church USA provided considerable data on the number of women in leadership roles. As we shared this data across the church, we heard a common question: “Why are women always saying no when asked to take on a leadership role within Mennonite Church USA?” …
Our lives, our religious lives, are lived in context. And that context for most of us is an American one. We should then pay attention to America’s religious experience and how that has affected our culture …
“I guess they’ll figure it out in therapy,” is a common comment made among my fellow mom-friends when speaking about their young children and their difficulties in parenting …
I walk up to the chain-linked fence that surrounds the county prison with a few members of our church. We show our authorized visitor cards and are admitted into the facility …
This is the last column in my series dedicated to keeping first things first. It seems fitting, then, to feature a passage that sets forth the rewards of the Christian life for those who labor in God’s kingdom …
Teachers infiltrate my life. I work with them, I relate to the ones that have taught (and continue to teach) my children, I see budding educators at my school …
The Advent season can be frustrating during our worship services. We want to sing Christmas carols that celebrate Jesus’ birth at Bethlehem. We don’t want to delay the celebration …
It’s become a Christmas tradition—each year the cultural warriors spread good cheer and the love of Christ by bitterly complaining about the secularization of the Christmas …
