As we sat in their living room, the feeling of warm hospitality overwhelmed us, but this feeling first arose before we arrived on their doorstep. They were there to welcome us at the door. We stepped inside, and they took our coats. They invited us to sit, and we sank comfortably onto the sofa. Finally, they offered us hot tea …
I am a Doctor Who fan. For those benighted few who don’t know, Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction TV series produced by the BBC. The Doctor is a 900-year-old alien who travels through time and space with a human companion …
Just as the Holy Spirit spoke to a group of worshippers in Antioch many years ago, the Holy Spirit speaks today—calling and commissioning people to new ministries. This is happening in an exciting way through the planting of new “kingdom communities” in Mennonite Church USA …
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 …
