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No Tomahawk missiles in the kingdom of God

This post is a sermon (audio version here) given April 9, 2017 at Washington City Church of the Brethren. Our gospel reading this morning is about Jesus’

Micah Bales

April 12, 2017

Jesus: king or prophet?

Why has the Jesus story become so timelessly influential across history? Why do so many people find something irresistibly attractive and fearful in it? And

John K. Stoner

April 11, 2017

Are we stuck at the cross?

It’s Holy Week. Sunday we progressed around the church with our palm fronds singing hosanna, reminding ourselves of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. From here we

Christine Sine

April 10, 2017

Things borrowed — a donkey, a room, a tomb

What do these “things borrowed” have in common? This year during Lent, while rereading the accounts of Jesus’ last days before his crucifixion, several things

L. Kenneth Fellenbaum

April 7, 2017

Gun shots and privilege

On a recent Saturday as my wife and I rode motorcycles to Albuquerque, N.M., two people were shot in my neighborhood. According to my neighbors, dozens

Glenn Balzer

April 4, 2017

Rethinking Judas

Growing up, we learn that Judas was the disciple who betrayed Jesus, and that’s true. What is also true is that Judas, I believe, is

Benjamin L. Corey

April 3, 2017

We are still willing

I remember Michael J. Sharp (MJ) as a rambunctious junior high kid from the time we overlapped life at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center and Scottdale

Stephen Kriss

March 31, 2017

Nationalism, civil religion and greed-based economics

Among the ways the last book of our Bible is truly revelatory is in its portrayal of violence and harm as perpetrated by evil systems

Harvey Yoder

March 30, 2017

No more palms, please

Most Christians never question where the palms on Palm Sunday come from. It never occurred to me, until my first year pastoring, that someone had

Hillary Watson

March 29, 2017

‘From death to life’

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. — Col. 3:15 On Easter

J Ron Byler

March 27, 2017

God’s love is cruciform

Paul instructs us in what it means to follow Jesus, when he stated, “Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the

Greg Boyd

March 24, 2017

Transformed by the Word

Renewal 2027 is a 10-year series of events launched by Mennonite World Conference to mark the 500th anniversary of the beginnings of the Anabaptist movement.

Hanspeter Jecker

March 23, 2017

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