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Reality, grief, hope

“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!” My morning mantra comes by rote rather than conviction.

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December 21, 2015

Talking past each other

It is so sad to see churches and conferences leaving a denomination. To see them leave under false assumptions is tragic. It seems the traditionalists

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December 21, 2015

Ignoring our violence

Western District Conference’s passage of the Rainbow Resolution (“In Western District, Same-Sex Marriage Won’t Bring Censure,” Nov. 9) signaled a hope that we are ready to

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December 7, 2015

Seminary’s origin

Thank you for publishing “AMBS Forerunner Began 70 Years Ago” (Nov. 23). That was a very special time, and I am grateful to Rich Preheim

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December 7, 2015

Justice denied

When an argument relies upon fictions and fabrications — as does the opposition to BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) by Philipp Gollner, Andrew Elias Ramer and

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December 7, 2015

Full-color compassion

The African-Americans who extended amazing grace to a white killer in South Carolina in June are noble examples of Jesus’ teaching to love your enemies.

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November 23, 2015

Enemy of justice

I could face torture, prison or execution in many nations if I spoke out publicly there as I do here. The U.S. supports bloody regimes

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November 23, 2015

Change the focus

Over half of the Nov. 9 front page is filled with same-sex issues. What a different message we would give to the churches and the

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November 23, 2015

Unite for peace

Pursuant to the “Faithful Witness Amid Endless War” resolution adopted by the Mennonite Church USA delegates in Kansas City last summer, isn’t now the time

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November 10, 2015

Purer but weaker

A purity parable: Alloys are stronger than pure metals. Pure metals have regular layers of atoms that slide over one another easily. In alloys, the

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November 10, 2015

Preoccupied with sex

Should a historian one day evaluate the major theme dominating the church during our time, would he or she not say we were preoccupied by

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November 10, 2015

If you are angry about U.S. and NATO aircraft bombing and destroying a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and if you think President Obama is guilty of war crimes, then include in that category many of our congressional representatives and senators. They vote for funding the Pentagon’s criminal adventures and aggression worldwide.

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October 26, 2015

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