Had the authors of “Lets Work for Safe Vaccines” remained with anecdotal reports and personal narratives, this response would not be necessary. But they included ethical imperatives for the church based on medical and scientific claims, so their opinion merits close examination …
People from dominant culture groups often ask me, “Why do we need to work on undoing racism and becoming interculturally competent?” I’m excited to hear this question. When we ask questions that make us vulnerable, it means we are becoming more honest with each other ..
If the current ugliness of the election season taints relationships between brothers and sisters within the church, that’s evidence of “ballot-box idolatry.” So says a Mennonite pastor whose appeal for an election-day Communion service has gone viral on the Internet …
In a now-famous TED Talk called “The Danger of a Single Story,” Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie warns against the human tendency to describe a people (or a tradition or an individual) on the basis of a single story …
I walk past the school motto “Educating for Eternity” daily and—daily—I am tempted to disparage it. What exactly does eternity require? Accurate arithmetic? Physical education? Bible memorization? Good spelling? …
We all carry prejudices. We prejudge others, make assumptions about them, often out of ignorance about those people and what they may believe …
It is Tuesday evening, Nov. 4, 2008. I am alone, and the church building is dark except for the light in the basement kitchen. As I prepare the baskets for the bread and fill each thimble-sized cup with juice, I silently repeat the words that will accompany the eating and drinking to come …
Mennonite Church USA is committed to becoming an antiracist church. One of the things that makes that difficult is that racism, like many systems and like the “powers” described in the New Testament, is pernicious and likes to remain hidden from our awareness. Part of becoming antiracist is to keep our awareness of racism alive …
