As Mennonites become more involved in the partisanship around presidential elections, the unity of our fellowship is threatened by political party loyalties. But there is a better way for us to respond: find ways to mediate between the polarized positions we experience …
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.—Matthew 5:48. This is one of those verses in Scripture we tend to ignore. Surely Jesus is asking the impossible. But would Jesus do that? …
With this quote from environmentalist Aldo Leopold inscribed on their T-shirts, 29 students and five faculty members from Eastern Mennonite High School in Harrisonburg, Va., headed westward on July 9, 2007, in our quest to create a land ethic. After traveling 22 days and nearly 8,000 miles through 22 states and nine National Parks and Monuments, we returned, tired but transformed …
In Oregon we vote by mail. A couple of weeks before the election, we receive our ballots and a big, thick “Election Guide” to help us make rational, informed decisions …
I learned from Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet of TV fame, that “frugal” doesn’t mean cutting back or using only lower-cost ingredients …
I dread the anticonsumption rhetoric that becomes especially shrill at Christmas. Here is my argument for consumption mixed with a measure of thought and intelligence …
Mennonites don’t talk much about consumer desire. Some of us are good at consuming, and others are just as adept at critiquing such consumption …
What word associations do you make with “Holy Spirit”? Speaking in tongues? Sanctification? Pentecostalism? Prophecy? Charismatic? Mystical? Spiritual? Inspiration of Scripture? Based on Jesus’ words to the disciples in John 14-16, I suggest still another one—contextualization …
How do you, as a pacifist Mennonite, justify playing a violent game like Halo? was the question I got through the telephone one lazy afternoon. I stopped for a moment, nervously chuckling. “Um, well, you see …”
