I had never read any of Menno Simons’ writings, though I grew up in a Mennonite home and have been an active member of a Mennonite church for 40 years. And when I asked Mennonite friends and colleagues if they had ever read anything written by Menno Simons, few had …
The Christmas season is an opportunity for us to think about and celebrate the first Christmas …
Do you know how many automobile accidents there were on Christmas Day, how many house fires, how many car bombings, how many children succumbed to preventable diseases?
I am a black belt in Aikido, a Japanese defensive art. It’s a more recent martial art, created by its founder in response to the violence he witnessed as a child and the devastation of his country as a result of World War II …
Since June I have been part of a support group for people living with depression or bipolar disorder that meets at our church roughly every other week. Meeting with this group has been helpful to me …