Kennel-Shank: A list for the time that’s left This month I celebrated my 36th birthday. If the average U.S. life expectancy is a useful measure of what to plan for — it’s currently Celeste Kennel-Shank July 22, 2019
A green wedding What do you do if you are committed environmentalists who plan to get married? Have a green wedding, of course. That’s what Winnipeggers Bethany Daman John Longhurst July 22, 2019
Breathing shared air Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon19 at Kansas City, Mo., was a reminder of who is still in the room after about a third of the denomination Stephen Kriss July 22, 2019
Book review: Beating Guns What do you get when you cross a Mennonite pastor with a blacksmith? Someone who forges weapons into plowshares! But this is no joke. A Ted Lewis July 8, 2019
Andres: The power of a single word When I rewatch films, I often pick up on something new. Occasionally, I notice something that changes the way I see the film. That was Carmen Andres July 8, 2019
King: Brightly beams mercy When I was growing up in Mexico, a son of missionaries who saw Jesus as the light to share with those they believed lost, I Michael A. King July 8, 2019
A story told twice In the 10th-floor conference room of the Church Center for the United Nations, Romelia Tenezaca’s story entered the air line by line, first in Spanish Abby Hershberger | Mennonite Central Committee July 8, 2019
History: Big family begat bigger church Christian (1788-1846) and Christiana Buzzard Holdeman (1788-1865) had Mennonite church leaders in their family tree. Christian’s father had been a minister, while Christiana’s great-grandfather was Rich Preheim July 8, 2019
Bible: You are not the worst thing you have done You are not the worst thing you have done. These are the words that pervade each moment of my time with the women at the Melissa Florer-Bixler July 8, 2019
Book review: Flee, Be Silent, Pray Twenty years ago, Ed Cyzewski left his Roman Catholic faith to become an evangelical. This led him to a hard-driving way of faith that required Laurie Oswald Robinson June 24, 2019
Bible: Congratulations! Jesus says For most of my life I read the Beatitudes as instruction, a mild if not righteous scolding. What if, instead of new commandments for people Melissa Florer-Bixler June 24, 2019
Miller: Lord, what about him? What to you makes a satisfactory life? The apostle John writes of an incident soon after Jesus had risen from the dead that is very Lucinda J. Kinsinger June 24, 2019
