Does love of gardening make one a Mennonite? My family joined a Mennonite church when I was 7. I was baptized at 14, but I
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 …
In 1984, Erma and Wilfred Martens were part of a small group that asked how the church could demonstrate that their daughter Linda was part of the church body. Their other daughter had been baptized, but Linda had developmental disabilities, and her ability to express her walk with Jesus was limited …
