How quickly we forget our nation’s experience around racism! A good reminder of where we’ve been and the price many have paid along the way appeared on TV in May …
How quickly we forget our nation’s experience around racism! A good reminder of where we’ve been and the price many have paid along the way appeared on TV in May …
The following reflections come as a response to the article “Mission as Form of Exoticism” by Leo Hartshorn in the November 2010 issue. My responses are shaped by 25 years of experience in the Republic of Congo with Congo Inland Mission/Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission and another 12 in the home office in Elkhart, Ind. …
Death makes me angry. Not scared, so much as thoroughly ripped off. The way it cuts down young people in their prime, like Bob Wenger on a cycle, or Matt Garber just after graduation …
In January 2010, I read my first book by Timothy Keller. Since that time, I have become a huge fan, reading his books and blogs and listening to his sermons online. Keller is the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, which is having a significant impact there and around the world through its many church planting initiatives …
I came to the Land of Enchantment at roughly three miles over the speed limit. My uncle drove me, my trusty bicycle, an assortment of footwear, clothing, knickknacks and a guitar across the horizontal world of sky and land of Kansas into a land interrupted by rock formations …
Many Mennonites, at least those watching movies in the 1980s, likely remember the stir caused by Witness, the 1985 film set among the Lancaster, Pa., Amish community. Rather than joining the debate about whether the movie transcends the standard pattern of action flicks, my mind after all these years remains fixated on a small encounter between an obnoxious tourist and Harrison Ford, who is posing as an Amish man …
