Life in First Nations reserves can be tough. Yet not all is grim on the reserve. In fact, spending a few weeks in a couple of these communities has been renewing and refreshing.
Life in First Nations reserves can be tough. Yet not all is grim on the reserve. In fact, spending a few weeks in a couple of these communities has been renewing and refreshing.
How did Holy Week – a time when Jesus rode a donkey, flipped the tables, and washed feet – become a time when we’re confronted with the sin of the quintessential false idol of the 1990s: THE BUNNY? (Any VeggieTales fans out there?)
I’m currently working on my Doctor of Ministry dissertation on nonviolent pastoral ethics. Part of this is taking a look at the cross and atonement, as it impacts the ethics of pastors. Bill Kincaid, my advisor, talks about a “360” view of the cross.
Spiritual discipline isn’t a legalistic burden; it’s the exercise our souls need to stay fit. Here are five practices inspired by holy envy for this Lenten season.
The going is indeed tough, but we need a new flora to shepherd us into an emerging era of hope. I submit to you five new plants to encourage, bolster and perhaps even invigorate you through the darkest of seasons.
How can this season be more than just “the time waiting for Easter”? What does it mean to wait in joyful anticipation for the Good News of Easter, both on Easter Sunday and the Good News of Jesus’ transforming presence in every hard day in this broken world?
Many people bury their shame. Mennonites are particularly good at hiding their feelings, including shame.
As people of faith, we’re often asked, “What should we do?” Scripture doesn’t offer a playbook for every moment, but it does illustrate a pattern of care, courage, and justice that can give shape to what our resistance looks like. What it doesn’t offer is a Jesus-shaped excuse to sit things out, even when the violence feels far away.
A common reaction to loss is to deny that the loss has happened. Denial doesn’t have to look like outright saying the death did not occur. It can look like going back to daily routines as if nothing has happened, not acknowledging that the loved one ever existed, or bowing out of conversations that involve the loved one
