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Cast out by the Spirit to the desert of holy disruption

I hear a gentle huffing from down by my feet. A few moments later, the huffing turns into an insistent pawing at my shins. Sighing,

Melanie A. Howard | For Anabaptist World

March 17, 2023

How my view changed and how it didn’t

Some women I love talked about abandoning a you-pick strawberry patch now owned by a gay couple. They felt themselves in a moral quandary, though they would not have considered boycotting the patch of a divorced and remarried or a live-in couple — though those couples would also be living in sin according to the Plain Mennonite understanding of Scripture. 

Lucinda J. Kinsinger | For Anabaptist World

March 16, 2023

2025: less triumph, more confession

On a Sunday In June 2004, an unusual scene unfolded on the west bank of the Limmat River in Zurich, Switz-erland. An eclectic crowd of

John D. Roth | For Anabaptist World

March 16, 2023

From dust to dust? Grace has the last word.

I buried a saint named Grace. Her insistence that I do her funeral brought me out of retirement for a few hours. 

Grace was known for saying, -“Conrad can do no wrong.” Every -pastor needs a Grace in their corner. 

Conrad L. Kanagy | For Anabaptist World

March 14, 2023

Reality check: We’re all connected

In the business of daily life, it is hard to remember what is important.

We try to remind each other. At -crucial times of life and death — when my child was born, when my -mother died — I was able to hold what is important to me, to feel how precious and fragile life is. 

Sarah Augustine | For Anabaptist World

March 13, 2023

Virtues for living in a knowledge crisis

In the last decade or so of my years as an editor, I often wrote about the power of media and the need for careful

Gordon Houser | For Anabaptist World

March 3, 2023

I’m a closet Christian

Where do you go to set your soul down?  I find myself both craving and creating safe spaces these days. For myself as well as

Jenny Gehman | For Anabaptist World

March 2, 2023

The Judas in my head

In the 12th chapter of John’s -Gospel, we find Jesus in Jerusalem with his disciples. They are making preparations for Passover, the annual festival to

Isaac S. Villegas | For Anabaptist World

March 2, 2023

God didn’t create us to assimilate but to be our true selves

In 2018, I was guest preaching at a Mennonite church as part of a summer internship. This was the final church I was preaching at

Jerrell Williams | For Anabaptist World

March 1, 2023

Speaking (and seeking) the truth in love

But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. — Ephesians 4:15  Paul

Hendy Matahelemual | For Anabaptist World

February 28, 2023

Communion: simpler than we make it

This Sacrament is not given to us merely in order that we do something, but that we may be someone: that we may be Christ. 

Sarah Kehrberg | For Anabaptist World

February 27, 2023

Toward understanding whiteness

My Mind changed about Drick Boyd’s book when I read these lines. Written after the murder of George Floyd yet before the white nationalist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Disrupting Whiteness is about how to talk to white people about racism.

Jonny Rashid | For Anabaptist World

February 9, 2023
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