A Jesus-centered Anabaptist Bible (“Planning a people’s Bible,” Sept. 23) has potential to address the intersection of racism-accommodating theology and the move to dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.
A Jesus-centered Anabaptist Bible (“Planning a people’s Bible,” Sept. 23) has potential to address the intersection of racism-accommodating theology and the move to dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.
The Sept. 23 issue contains articles about the creation of an Anabaptist Bible. This title troubles me because “Anabaptist Bible” implies the creation of new texts.
In his 1961 farewell address, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned against a “military-industrial complex.” That year, U.S. military spending was $49.88 billion, less than $500 billion in today’s dollars.
After the [Repentance and Transformation] vote by Mennonite Church USA delegates, it was utterly predictable that some portions of MC USA would reconsider their relationship to the denomination.
I loved the prayer on the cover of the Aug. 26 issue: “God save the Earth.” Author Steve Thomas notes that, “Yes, we must pray, but we must act. And now.”
Cheers for Sarah Kehrberg’s Aug. 26 column (“Who are we to play God?”) supporting birth control.
The Aug. 26 issue was the best I’ve read. The articles about climate change offered easily understood, hands-on climate-change mitigation actions that churches can use right now.
In “Abortion: beyond polarized views” (Aug. 5), Martin Shupack states that “neither Scripture nor science can prove abortion is homicide.”
Paul Schrag’s Aug. 26 editorial discusses Ronald J. Sider’s views on abortion and government policy.
Thank you for “My body is not a prayer request” and “Autism pastor: disabled folks opt out” (Aug. 26). We need to recognize God’s work in these triumphs of faith.
I am so grateful to AW for the way you framed the conversation about abortion, including Joseph Penner’s “Pregnant amid the abortion fights” (Aug. 5).
Ryan Ahlgrim bemoans the “one-sided language” of the “Repentance and Transformation” resolution passed by Mennonite Church USA delegates in Kansas City (Letters, Aug. 5).
