4 course corrections for the Mennonite church Asked to give a talk on “the years ahead,” felt daunting. I’m in my mid-80s, and I was
Consider how business theory applies to the church. Some believe it is the definitive model of how to do church. Others are more skeptical. The church is in the world and submits (hopefully with eyes wide open) to some of the basic laws of earthly economics, but it is not of the world …
Late at night on Jan. 26, I was reading The Widows of Eastwick. The next day I learned that the author of that novel, John Updike, had died. His death felt like losing a college friend with whom one made an annual contact, a good neighbor who came to see us once a year …
Over the next six months, Mennonite Church USA congregations will make decisions about their participation in The Corinthian Plan, the new employee benefit plan for pastors and church workers. Our goal is to have 300 congregations signed up by the time we gather for the Mennonite Church USA Convention 2009 in Columbus, Ohio, in July. The enrollment period ends Oct. 1 …
Many of us accept that we cannot ignore sexual abuse; victims and offenders worship in our congregations. We must not continue to silence victims of sexual abuse as we have for years, nor can we demonize and alienate individuals who have committed sexual offenses. Yet God calls us to a third way …
It is better to give than to receive. For the person brought up in the arms of the church, this could be one of those “lessons I learned in kindergarten,” Sunday school kindergarten at least …
