My neighbor is a master gardener and demonstrates her growing skill with more elaborate, more beautiful gardens every year. Before she studied gardening, her backyard was an overgrown, poison ivy-infested hillside sloping down toward the St. Joseph River …
Mennonite Church USA has committed itself to being “missional.” What does that mean? And what is the responsibility of leadership in leading the church into being missional? …
Mediaculture first appeared in the Feb. 17, 1998, issue of a new magazine called The Mennonite. In that column I outlined the purposes of the column and wrote, “We swim in an ocean of media and culture without thinking about it or analyzing how it might affect us” …
The economy is in recession. Our denomination is shrinking in size; membership is aging. This is the milieu in which Mennonite Church USA looks for a new executive director—the top staff position in the church …
The economic crash of 2008 was essentially a spiritual problem of unregulated greed and uncontrolled selfishness—the dark side of free market enterprise …
