Mennonite Church USA Convention is an every-other-year event. A year ago I had the joy of serving as co-coordinator for the prayer team of Columbus 2009. It was hard work, precious work, rewarding work …

I like rituals. Not a very Mennonite thing to say, perhaps, given how much the Anabaptist movement in its early years decried the exaggerated ritualism of its day. But it was the ritual of baptism, stunningly reclaimed, that opened vistas for the Spirit to transform ordinary people into fearless witnesses …

At a recent youth worker conference, I was both surprised and a bit insulted when I learned that I still fit the “adolescent” category. A study into the development of healthy adolescents now shows that the human brain is not completely developed until age 27 …