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Speaking of identity, love eases tension

I wish I had read Christie Penner Worden’s The Me I Was Made to Be a decade ago when my sons were entering adolescence and

Melanie Springer Mock | For Anabaptist World

November 26, 2024

Rural soil still fertile for faith

Though I live in a town of fewer than 2,500 people, I don’t consider my community rural. We’re not close enough to Portland, Ore., to

Melanie Springer Mock | For Anabaptist World

October 24, 2024

A peaceful yet pugnacious theologian

I first met j. Denny Weaver at a Mennonite theology conference in the late 1980s. It was my first such conference. Having recently com­pleted graduate

Ted Grimsrud | For Anabaptist World

June 29, 2024

Parable refutes the legal gospel

The Prodigal Son is one of Jesus’ best-known parables. Those raised in the church could no doubt recite the story’s main plot points by memory:

Melanie Springer Mock | For Anabaptist World

May 24, 2024

Flourishing by simplifying

Above my kitchen sink is a window, as there was in each of my grandparents’ homes. When I’m washing dishes, among other times, I often

Celeste Kennel-Shank | For Anabaptist World

April 30, 2024

The struggle over education’s purpose

While reading John D. Roth’s social history of Goshen College, the words of Ecclesiastes 1:9 came to mind: “There is nothing new under the sun.”

Melanie Springer Mock | For Anabaptist World

March 3, 2024

What does your food say about you?

Marlene Epp, a Canadian historian specializing in gender, migration and Mennonite culture, focuses on relationships between Mennonites and food in Eating Like a Mennonite. She

Rachel Waltner Goossen | For Anabaptist World

February 7, 2024

Starting point for a new Reformation

As Legend Has it, on Oct. 31, 1517, the young Augustinian monk Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation by nailing 95 theses to the door

David C. Cramer | For Anabaptist World

January 19, 2024

Worldly realism and holy hope

Advent devotionals often have felt ho-hum to me: Wait patiently until Christmas, the main event. In The Holy in the Night: Finding Freedom in a

Laurie Oswald Robinson | For Anabaptist World

November 2, 2023

Jesus’ way: expansive, not exhausting

For Much of my life, being a Christian often meant being a rule follower, my days guided by a series of “oughts.” It mattered little

Melanie Springer Mock | For Anabaptist World

September 16, 2023

A novel of Ukraine in a time of crisis

The acclaimed Canadian poet Sarah Klassen’s newest work is a novel about Mennonite family life in Ukraine during the early 20th century. The story centers

Rachel Waltner Goossen | For Anabaptist World

July 6, 2023

Expanding what it means to be pro-life

Shane Claiborne wants Christians to embrace a “robust ethic of life.” He suggests how we might do this in his new book, Rethinking Life. Claiborne,

Jonny Rashid | For Anabaptist World

May 23, 2023
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