Violence is part of everyone’s everyday life in Brazil, even though certain groups are disproportionally more affected. For instance, the homicide rate of blacks is twice as high as that of whites. Two well-known movies show how violence is commonplace for all—City of God and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within …
On the morning of May 27, 1918, my grandfather James Hostetler of Baltic, Ohio, joined dozens of other young men on a train bound for Camp Sherman, a military training facility at Chillicothe, Ohio …
How do you save a conference from destroying itself? We are facing potentially grim times in the Mennonite church in the second decade of the 21st century. Homosexuality and church process, once thought to be dealt with, is rearing its head again in mystifying ways, with dust kicked up from both progressive and traditional camps …
The book of the Revelation to John has with good reason been called the most revealing book of the Bible. Its message is a call to relentless persistence in the work of witnessing to God’s way to run the world, which was lived and taught by Jesus. And it is an ear-splitting proclamation that the ways of greed, consumption and homicidal violence will fail miserably, while those who practice love and generosity will endure forever.
We live in a culture that glorifies war and violence. We are taught—paradoxically—that this is the way to peace. How do we, as followers of Jesus, who taught us instead to love our enemies, question this assumption? How do we offer other ways to go about bringing change in our world, ways that build up rather than destroy? As Christians we need to live into and tell another story, one that we know is life-giving, right and true …
“I love Americans,” Pedro announced to the small group gathered for the Wednesday evening Bible study. “I love your music, your language, your people.”
Hanging on the cross, tortured, almost dead, a convicted rebel asks Jesus for an invitation to God’s paradise: “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom” …
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