Reflections on James 2:1-17 and Mark 7:24-37 As a young adult I participated in a Mennonite Church Assembly. The theme was "Free to Be Bound
After 29 years in various pastoral roles in the U.S. context, I found myself working as a minister of peace and justice for a mission agency located in the global mission division …
When Joel and Leslie Gerber said they were thinking about a service term, they got some funny looks.
Muyishi Mutangidiki, a Congolese Mennonite evangelist, struggled to turn his head from the direct fury of the sun. Bound hand and foot to a corpse, a torrent of taunts further paralyzed him …
My family of origin and the community that shaped it taught me a false lesson and a true one. As a threat to burn Qurans draws intervention even from U.S. military leaders in the paradoxical position of leading the killing of many Muslims, as the discontent of many Americans with groups and views other than their own seems to rise by the day, what I learned from my family, both false and true, seems vital …
