Learning to deal with the loss of people who move away Rarely is this good news. The pastor of your church announces she’s accepted a
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 …
Bob Brenneman believes in the power of story. His own story moves from growing up in a rural church in southern Michigan to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), Harrisonburg, Va., to Guatemala to Notre Dame (Ind.) University, where he completed a doctoral program in the sociology of religion …
I don’t know about the gates of Hades, but there are forces at work that make it difficult for the church to be the lighthouse God meant it to be when God instituted it …
I was talking with an educator the other day who said something funny, and the phrase stuck with me. Though it was said as a joke, I wondered how serious the implications really were …
