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Breathe and be filled

Convention 2009 happens June 30-July 5 in Columbus, Ohio. It is our fourth convention as Mennonite Church USA …

The Mennonite

May 19, 2009

Heavens

Poem When in September 1882 a fragment rivaled the sun as it fell past the sun, hit perihelion, grazed the day with its light as

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

Prayerfully present

A transformation from unhappiness to gratitude I stifle a gag as I open the door to the chicken house. My nose reacts as if suddenly

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The years ahead

4 course corrections for the Mennonite church Asked to give a talk on “the years ahead,” felt daunting. I’m in my mid-80s, and I was

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The church and economics after Christendom

Brief theological considerations This article was originally written and published in German as “Christ und Wirtschaft,” Der Mennonit. Internationales mennonitisches Gemeindeblatt 26/11 (November 1973): 161-162.

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

The business of church

Consider how business theory applies to the church. Some believe it is the definitive model of how to do church. Others are more skeptical. The church is in the world and submits (hopefully with eyes wide open) to some of the basic laws of earthly economics, but it is not of the world …

The Mennonite

May 5, 2009

New life in the present and hope for the future

In order to address “the afterlife,” one must first speak of the meaning of life in the present. The afterlife does not stand alone as if disconnected from prior earthly life. The after is connected to the before, to the everyday life of the Christian in the present. The attitude toward death in our society is relevant as well …

The Mennonite

April 21, 2009

Learning to pray without words

Poem You must turn away from the speech center until the desire for language slips beyond the weary orbits of vocabulary and definition into that

The Mennonite

April 21, 2009

At once

Living in the present is at once the easiest and the hardest thing you’ll do. And the key is found in those two short words (six letters) “at once” …

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April 21, 2009

Wrestling at Peniel

The story of Jacob wrestling at Peniel has always puzzled me. In my first Bible, the New International Version I read as a third-grader, the subject heading was “Jacob Wrestles with an Angel.” If this stranger is indeed an angel of the Lord, it is not one of the sort pictured on greeting cards or spoken of in sentimental tales of angels in disguise helping people unaware …

The Mennonite

April 21, 2009

Prayer changes things

Three stories of how prayer changed things in an unexpected way, leading to God moments. As I entered the hospital room and introduced myself, I

The Mennonite

April 19, 2009

WEB EXCLUSIVE: A stranger hugged me

Pastor shares way of peace with young couple A stranger hugged me the other day in front of my house. This wasn't the kind of

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April 7, 2009
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