At the School for Leadership Training at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in January, we planned to offer keynotes, case studies and workshops on discernment. As SLT
Last fall, a delegation of eight Mennonites attended hearings in Vancouver, B.C., to listen to stories of the trauma inflicted upon Indigenous people through Indian Residential Schools, to honor the survivors and to acknowledge the participation of the former General Conference Mennonite Church in this traumatic history.
In the summer of 1660, leaders of various Mennonite churches in the Netherlands met in Leiden to discuss a theological controversy over the nature of the church. Several years prior, two young ministers from Amsterdam, Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan and David Spruyt, had presented a statement to their co-ministers denying that any church could claim to be the “true” church of God …
One of the primary functions of journalism is to serve the public by holding accountable those in power who may be harming the public. But sometimes that watchdog function fails, as it did in the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 …
Renewal is a potent word. If we played a word association game with “renewal,” the first words that came to your mind would probably be different from what came to my mind, which would be different from the responses of your neighbor, best friend, pastor, coworker or hairstylist …
How issues are framed often determines the outcome of the debate; and sometimes those engaged in argument discover that they are really concerned about overlapping but different aspects of the issue. We have learned in the last decade of debate that the current framing of the issues has not really advanced the dialogue. So perhaps we need to stop and examine our perspective on the question before us …
