While substitute teaching at a middle school recently, I noticed a leather coaster with a quote from Aristotle on it: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Might the same be true of peacemaking? And of violence? …
Films often serve as a mirror of the trends in our culture. As art, they also uncover certain realities we may otherwise ignore …
Sharon Kennel of Shickley, Neb., laughed
when she was approached by two people in 1999 about becoming a conference minister in what was then Iowa-Nebraska
Conference of the former Mennonite Church. “I laughed because I thought this was such an unlikely idea” …
