Martha Graber 'helps make things work out.' Martha F. Graber reads steadily, modulating her voice to adapt to the content. Reading The Mennonite on tape
Sharon Kennel of Shickley, Neb., laughed
when she was approached by two people in 1999 about becoming a conference minister in what was then Iowa-Nebraska
Conference of the former Mennonite Church. “I laughed because I thought this was such an unlikely idea” …
We live in such a polarized world. The recent elections again revealed the polarization in which we live and the context in which our church and institutions minister. There is a better way …
Mennonite Church USA will face some significant challenges in 2011. At least one will come to a head early in the new year: deciding whether to change the location of the 2013 national convention. But there are other, equally troublesome issues confronting us all …
I would like to think I coined the phrase “church baby.” It’s possible, since I wasn’t able to find the reference when googling it. When I was pregnant with my first child, I told people at church that I wanted my daughter to be a “church baby,” which means, in the simplest form, she would feel comfortable going to any adult in the church …
You won’t find it at the back of Hymnal: A Worship Book, Sing the Journey or even Sing the Story, but Mennonites seem to have an official litany when it comes to young adults. It goes something like this …
