When I saw the comic “Loaves and Fishsticks” (Sept. 25) picturing God as an old man with a beard, I thought, “Really, is that the best we can do?”
Thank you for the article on John Regehr’s decision about death (Oct. 16). In 2007 The Mennonite published an article about my 20-year-old son’s discussion with me on this subject before he passed away.
Eastern Mennonite University 2002 graduate Erik Kratz ended his Major League Baseball career with an announcement Nov. 6 on social media. He played 19 seasons of professional baseball, breaking into the majors at age 30 with Pittsburgh in 2010, following a standout career at EMU.
While serving in South Africa with Mennonite Mission Network, theologian Joe Sawatzky often learned as much about God from his cross-cultural engagements as he did from textbooks.
The U.S. political system fosters siding with a party and the party’s candidate in a way that views everything associated with that candidate or party as right and good and other parties and candidates as wrong and bad.
In 2008 i was a first-time voter and watched the election unfold from Brazil. As a newcomer to this political action and fresh off of reading Shane Claiborne’s Jesus for President, I had a lot of questions.
Thank you for Hendy Stevan Matahelemual’s beautiful column, “What is your flag?” (Oct. 16). I feel heartened and encouraged; it makes me feel hopeful.