Christ’s love is the comprehensive answer to human problems, but that all-encompassing compassion must be incarnated through small acts of faith …

Ted Eash remembers the event well. As a pastor, he often received news about accidents; this one was no different. Several weeks earlier, a member of his congregation, a farmer, was forced to swerve his truck. The truck flipped, injuring him and damaging the truck beyond repair …

With this quote from environmentalist Aldo Leopold inscribed on their T-shirts, 29 students and five faculty members from Eastern Mennonite High School in Harrisonburg, Va., headed westward on July 9, 2007, in our quest to create a land ethic. After traveling 22 days and nearly 8,000 miles through 22 states and nine National Parks and Monuments, we returned, tired but transformed …

In Oregon we vote by mail. A couple of weeks before the election, we receive our ballots and a big, thick “Election Guide” to help us make rational, informed decisions …

I learned from Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet of TV fame, that “frugal” doesn’t mean cutting back or using only lower-cost ingredients …

I dread the anticonsumption rhetoric that becomes especially shrill at Christmas. Here is my argument for consumption mixed with a measure of thought and intelligence …

Mennonites don’t talk much about consumer desire. Some of us are good at consuming, and others are just as adept at critiquing such consumption …

What word associations do you make with “Holy Spirit”? Speaking in tongues? Sanctification? Pentecostalism? Prophecy? Charismatic? Mystical? Spiritual? Inspiration of Scripture? Based on Jesus’ words to the disciples in John 14-16, I suggest still another one—contextualization …

My parents, grandparents (both sides) great-grandparents and my great-great-grandparents all grew up on farms. But I grew up in an urban area of a small city, and today I live in Pittsburgh, Pa., part of the 20th largest metropolitan area in the United States …

Our relationship with our body often is wearisome, particularly in our “your-body-should-look-like-this” culture. And the idea of the body as a temple is prone to be purely theoretical, lacking any practical application in our daily lives. We may often leave connecting with God through a bodily experience to the mystics, finding ourselves uncomfortable with the mystical experience in general …

In the age of the professional military, it’s hard to know how to offer a relevant peace witness. We’re no longer called before draft boards. We don’t have to do anything to avoid military service. We just have to avoid signing up. In the meantime, we continue to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with our tax dollars. Does an all-volunteer military make our witness obsolete?

It is time for top Mennonite leaders to take a dramatic new step and issue a daring new call for a vast expansion of Christian Peacemaker Teams. With only modest resources and less institutional support, CPT’s activities—and a host of other successful nonviolent campaigns in the last few decades—have demonstrated that nonviolence frequently prevents bloodshed and promotes justice. It is time for the Christian church—for the first time ever in our history—to invest large resources to test the possibilities of large-scale nonviolent campaigns …