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Book review: ‘Doing Good Better’

It goes without saying that nonprofit organizations of all types are important. But what does need to be stated repeatedly is the importance of good

Rich Preheim

January 18, 2016

Palestine: a time for peace, a time for action

As 39 students from across the U.S. and Canada entered the Church Center for the United Nations, my colleagues and I happily welcomed each of

Kolton Nay

January 18, 2016

Cruel words as agents of change

Those were your words. You know not, you can scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me. — Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice I find

Sarah Kehrberg

January 4, 2016

Whose lives matter?

An expert in political science asks Jesus about his support for Samaritan Lives Matter. Apparently, Jesus had told a story with a Samaritan hero and

Jane Yoder-Short

January 4, 2016

Year of opportunity

A friend told me about an incident he experienced just before Christmas. He was awakened one morning at 3:30 a.m. in a cold sweat from

John Powell

January 4, 2016

Bible: Mirror of God or idolatry?

It’s hard to tell which makes Christians more nervous — talking about God in the language of sex (Hosea) or talking about sex in the

Meghan Good

January 4, 2016

Book review: ‘The Sabbath Experiment’

The Sabbath Experiment: Spiritual Formation for Living in a Non-Stop World transports me back to childhood, when observing the Sabbath was unselfconscious and assumed. Those

Laurie Oswald Robinson

January 4, 2016

Missionaries to us

North Americans have naturally thought of Christian mission as what takes place from here to there — to some other country in the world. It’s

Richard Showalter

January 4, 2016

New life from loss

Blackened trusses stand against the sky above the walls of an old church that burned. I often pass the corner where the church has sat

Celeste Kennel-Shank

December 21, 2015

We’re due for another Reformation

Every 500 years or so, the church has a giant garage sale, getting rid of the stuff it no longer needs. That’s what author Phyllis

John Longhurst

December 21, 2015

Book review: ‘Peace, Progress and the Professor’

Perry Bush’s Peace, Progress and the Professor is technically a biography of Mennonite historian C. Henry Smith. But it’s actually a timely time machine. It

Rich Preheim

December 21, 2015

Songs that unite us

We sometimes think that we are the church on our own — whether that’s our local congregation, our area conference or our denomination. But every

Andre Gingerich Stoner

December 21, 2015

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