Real Families: Meditations on family life It was a long-ago summer day, a day made for going without shoes. I was barefoot in the back
One of my most humbling experiences in the past months is to have so many people say they are praying for me …
Last month’s Winter Olympics were unquestionably a fantastic display of athleticism and dedication. We got to see elegant ice skating, stomach-churning luge, cerebral curling and more—all with ample human drama of perseverance and sacrifice …
Robin died of pneumonia in the woods behind Wal-Mart. She lived in the forest for the past decade, but it wouldn’t be exactly true to say that she was “homeless.” She called the forest her home …
In the parable of the laborers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16), a landowner goes out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard, promising them the usual daily wage. He goes back to the marketplace to hire more workers at 9 a.m., promising to pay them “whatever is right” …
Scarcely a week goes by without someone saying, “Give people fish and you feed them for a day; teach them how to fish and you feed them for life” …
Twenty years ago, our government threatened to start the first Gulf war, then made good on those threats in August 1990. We had the first Gulf War, the Second Gulf War and now the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mennonites now seem to be at peace with these nearly continual wars …
