Leadership: A word from Mennonite leaders Our church-related institutions face profound challenges integrating faithfulness to core mission and values while adapting to changes in the
I grew up Old Mennonite (Mennonite Church, MC), graduated from Goshen (Ind.) Biblical Seminary and pastored two Old Mennonite congregations, one dual-conference congregation and one former General Conference Mennonite Church congregation. I am now retired and a member in a former GC church …
I am writing this column on the grounds of Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The delegates of Mennonite Church Canada gathered here for discernment under the theme “Wild Hope: Faith for an Unknown Season” …
As the willow oak and yellow pine trees in my neighborhood begin to bud, as branches and stems turn from brown to green, the Eastern bluebirds arrive …
Recent events in Ukraine reflect a struggle for control by international powers, the likes of which history has seen many before. Though we reside in one of those powers, we dare not choose a favorite. The United States (U.S.) and Russia are playing the devil’s game in Ukraine.
Job is one of my favorite books in the Bible and is interesting poetically, philosophically and theologically. I’m not a biblical scholar or theologian and have not read all the commentaries and expositions on the meaning of Job, but I know that the questions it wrestles with are the basic questions tripping up millions as a roadblock to faith in God …
