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How I teach history differently

A student wanted to know: Why did I tell such negative stories about this country? Our country does good things, too. The purpose of teaching

John E. Sharp

April 11, 2016

Choice already made

Mennonites used to be concerned about what vocations were and weren’t appropriate for followers of Jesus Christ. But now it seems most anything goes. When

Letters

April 11, 2016

Bluffton lecturer challenges racism in the church

BLUFFTON, Ohio — Author, blogger, activist and professor Drew G.I. Hart presented the Keeney Peace Lecture, “What Has Shalom to Do with White Dominant Culture?,” during Forum March 29 at Bluffton University. Hart combined his pastoral experience with his academic training to challenge the church to pursue practices that make for justice.

Bluffton University

April 11, 2016

Bible: Redeemed from the depths

You have to know something about pigs to understand these two passages from the Gospel of Luke. First-century Jews did not raise pigs; they did

Lois Y. Barrett

April 11, 2016

Book review: ‘An Increase in Time’

This is not an average congregational history. But Germantown Mennonite Church is not an average congregation. Richard Lichty, the author of An Increase in Time: Story

Daniel Hertzler

April 11, 2016

The strengths of others

On Easter Sunday, Lutherans said a prayer for unity. The liturgy offered by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America asked the God of life to

Tim Huber

April 11, 2016

Seminary debt is church’s burden

When people ask why I, a lifelong Mennonite, chose not to get my graduate degree at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, I usually offer the easy

Hillary Watson

April 11, 2016

Yelling at one who gives $100 bills

Suppose I walk up to a neighbor and give them a $100 bill. They, of course, wonder what it’s for! I just say that I

Harold N. Miller

April 8, 2016

Anabaptists and American syncretism

There is, among many Christians, a general fear of this concept of “syncretism,” and in many cases, they would be right. The adoption of pagan

Robert Martin

April 7, 2016

What about sexual violence by adolescents?

Dove’s Nest has heard from churches that are struggling with situations of abuse in which an adolescent is the offender. These situations are terribly painful

Dove's Nest

April 5, 2016