The wonder is that the U.S. Army even wanted four young Hutterite farmers from the Rockport Colony in South Dakota. Soldiering was most assuredly not in their DNA. The communal church to which they belonged had been resolutely set against all warfare for 400 years …
On Christmas Day 1989, Madeline Maldonado sat at her sister-in-law’s church.
Her life seemed to be unrolling like the typical American’s: She was married, pregnant and educated—in airplane mechanics. But she was unhappy …
While some Christians campaign for certain texts to be taken literally, few advocate the authoritative nature of the wild generosity reported on in Acts 4:32-35. We hear of this early group of believers owning nothing …
My wife is in Pennsylvania. She and our sons are packing up the rest of the house we still own there. She is also seeing all the friends we left behind when we moved to Wisconsin. Soon she and one of our sons will drive the truck to Madison, and we will move the last of our belongings into our new home. It feels like we are finally settling in here …
Stories of ministers performing same-sex covenanting ceremonies and a congregation under discipline dominate the news from area conferences this summer. At first glance, it appears former General Conference Mennonite Church (GC) conferences are following their traditional practice of congregational autonomy, while a former Mennonite Church (MC) conference is following its traditional assumption of conference authority over matters of faith among member congregations …
In May, I spent nearly two weeks immersed in a profusion of languages—a wonderfully diverse, sometimes confusing polyglot of tongues that has left me marveling at the miracle of communication …
It is hard to believe that followers of Jesus would object to a book entitled Love Wins. Yet in September 2011 a book by that title, written by pastor Rob Bell, stirred up many objections. The objections came in the form of a charge that Bell is a universalist. By universalist, his critics meant that Bell believes there is no hell and that all people will be in heaven …
Here are some recent books you may not want to take to the beach, but they do provide instruction and inspiration …
