The April editorial on a health-care institution’s “homecoming” sure triggered a host of memories. I served under Mennonite Central Committee and the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities (MBMC) from 1943 (Civilian Public Service) until 1979 and on the board of directors of Mennonite Mental Health, Mennonite Mutual Aid and MCC’s developmental disabilities committee for many years …
This title of an op-ed piece by Frank Bruni in the June 1 New York Times caught my eye, since I sometimes serve in the role of reporter. But it also raises an important issue we all should address: the role of reporting the news in order to hold leaders of various kinds accountable to their constituents …
I pretty much stopped believing in the Trinity a long time ago—at least in the traditional sense—where God is a white-haired old man who with his son Jesus and the Holy Ghost make up the Godhead …
“We don’t have any money to give you,” the pastor said to the strange man who approached him in a busy bus station in the northern part of Mexico City. “But we can provide you with lodging at our church and invite you to present your case to the members to see how
they respond” …
