Ten years ago to the month, delegates at Nashville 2001 voted to create Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. The 2001 delegate workbook offered an audacious look at the future of our new national church body. According to the document, “Imagining the Future: 2001 to 2011,” this is some of what 2011 was supposed to look like …
These words have been my screen saver for the last year. Whenever I stop typing for a few minutes, they scroll across the screen. They remind me that I am in an in-between place. They orient me. The time for departure is coming …
How quickly we forget our nation’s experience around racism! A good reminder of where we’ve been and the price many have paid along the way appeared on TV in May …
The following reflections come as a response to the article “Mission as Form of Exoticism” by Leo Hartshorn in the November 2010 issue. My responses are shaped by 25 years of experience in the Republic of Congo with Congo Inland Mission/Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission and another 12 in the home office in Elkhart, Ind. …
Death makes me angry. Not scared, so much as thoroughly ripped off. The way it cuts down young people in their prime, like Bob Wenger on a cycle, or Matt Garber just after graduation …
In January 2010, I read my first book by Timothy Keller. Since that time, I have become a huge fan, reading his books and blogs and listening to his sermons online. Keller is the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, which is having a significant impact there and around the world through its many church planting initiatives …
I came to the Land of Enchantment at roughly three miles over the speed limit. My uncle drove me, my trusty bicycle, an assortment of footwear, clothing, knickknacks and a guitar across the horizontal world of sky and land of Kansas into a land interrupted by rock formations …
