Kinsinger: My life is unfair I realized, my first Sunday morning volunteering at the Rusk County Jail, how very unfair my life has been. My sister and I sat across Lucinda J. Kinsinger June 1, 2020
Yoder-Short: Jesus the joker Have you tried any tasty camel recipes? In this time of physical distancing, people are doing more experimental cooking. I have yet to try a Jane Yoder-Short June 1, 2020
Book review: American Harvest “Certain conditions yield certain things.” In the setting of the Great Plains, an owner of a custom harvest crew offers this axiom in answer to Dave Osborne June 1, 2020
Powell: Kids don’t start racist While shopping last year, a white child about 4 years old pointed at me and asked his mother, “Is that a n---er?” The mother took John Powell June 1, 2020
Bible: Who listens when Wisdom speaks? I don’t know how many teenage boys will read this column, but these texts are addressed to young men your age! Even though the NRSV Reta Halteman Finger June 1, 2020
Kehrberg: I wouldn’t change a thing It’s all my own fault — my own fault; and yet I’m not guilty! — Stiva Oblonsky, Anna Karenina There is a well-worn trope in Sarah Kehrberg June 1, 2020
Kriss: Belonging to the truth I was struck by the words of Pontius Pilate during Holy Week as I walked the Stations of the Cross sponsored by Renew Community in Stephen Kriss May 18, 2020
Book review: Seditions, Confusion and Tumult The question left Layton Boyd Friesen befuddled: Why were the 16th-century Anabaptists so reviled and persecuted? The answer Friesen had learned — that they lived Rich Preheim May 18, 2020
Longhurst: No glib prayers During this time of pandemic, many Christians are turning to prayer. But what to pray? It can be especially hard for worship leaders, who wonder John Longhurst May 18, 2020
Bible: Steadfast prophet, faithless wife When Hosea prophesied at the sunset of the northern kingdom of Israel, he cast a vision for the people’s future by recalling their past with Brad Roth May 18, 2020
Kraybill: Heaven’s silence awaits prayer No, this is not the end of the world. But COVID-19 certainly is an apocalypse — an “unveiling” — as the word is understood in J. Nelson Kraybill May 18, 2020
Miller: Parents’ lessons stick for life Complying with a stay-at-home order has given me lots of time to catch up on projects around the house — cleaning out landscape beds, reorganizing JB Miller May 18, 2020
