Every year we pull out the Cadbury, peanut butter, painted and plastic eggs to celebrate what ultimately is the gruesome R-rated story of the public torture and execution of a human being. Why do we coat Jesus’ story in chocolate and bunnies? I’m not sure why you do, but at our house, my son isn’t old enough to understand death …

Carol decided to try an experiment. Several of her friends at work were giving up things for Lent, and she decided to join them (even though her church didn’t practice Lent). To her husband’s surprise, she gave up shopping. Once a week she did grocery shopping for her family but never bought anything for herself for 40 days …

True worship is done not because we want to look good but because we want to make God look good. Imagine God beginning each day

An experience in Haiti of the presence of God Some years ago, I had an experience of peace and salvation—and thus of God—that is still

From collaboration to perpetration We are publishing a 4,000-word article for the first time because the subject is so disquieting: Mennonites helping kill Jews and Communists

We need not be afraid of those who hold different beliefs from ours. Afew years back, I made a new friend named Hadad. We were

Broadening the Anabaptist vision toward the care of animals When I meet new people and tell them that I am from New York, most assume

The Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia has shown great growth. Back in 1967, when Vera and I first arrived in Ethiopia, we found a committed