It is Tuesday evening, Nov. 4, 2008. I am alone, and the church building is dark except for the light in the basement kitchen. As I prepare the baskets for the bread and fill each thimble-sized cup with juice, I silently repeat the words that will accompany the eating and drinking to come …
Mennonite Church USA is committed to becoming an antiracist church. One of the things that makes that difficult is that racism, like many systems and like the “powers” described in the New Testament, is pernicious and likes to remain hidden from our awareness. Part of becoming antiracist is to keep our awareness of racism alive …
Bob Brenneman believes in the power of story. His own story moves from growing up in a rural church in southern Michigan to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), Harrisonburg, Va., to Guatemala to Notre Dame (Ind.) University, where he completed a doctoral program in the sociology of religion …
