“So what is the minimum that it takes to call yourself a Mennonite church?” Hyun Hur asked with a twinkle in his eye. But behind the query was an unmistakable seriousness …
I grew up Old Mennonite (Mennonite Church, MC), graduated from Goshen (Ind.) Biblical Seminary and pastored two Old Mennonite congregations, one dual-conference congregation and one former General Conference Mennonite Church congregation. I am now retired and a member in a former GC church …
I am writing this column on the grounds of Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The delegates of Mennonite Church Canada gathered here for discernment under the theme “Wild Hope: Faith for an Unknown Season” …
As the willow oak and yellow pine trees in my neighborhood begin to bud, as branches and stems turn from brown to green, the Eastern bluebirds arrive …
