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Lent: The promptings of faith
Editor’s note: From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, bloggers for The Mennonite will write reflections on the Lectionary text. All eight reflections will be available at themennonite.org/lent. Sign up for our TMail newsletter and follow us on Facebook to receive the reflections. I like Abram’s response when God offered him a covenant (Genesis 15:1-18), part […]
May 2019 Call for Submissions: God so loved the whole world
The Mennonite, Inc., invites your original submissions for our May 2019 print magazine issue and corresponding online content focusing on God so loved the whole world. Description of the theme: In Genesis 1, the world God created is called “good” seven times. In Genesis 2:15, God puts Adam in the Garden of Eden “to till it […]
Lent: We must delve into ourselves
Editor’s note: From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, bloggers for The Mennonite will write reflections on the Lectionary text. All eight reflections will be available at themennonite.org/lent. Sign up for our TMail newsletter and follow us on Facebook to receive the reflections. It is incredibly easy to become lost. More than ever, people look toward […]
Friday roundup: Five things worth paying attention to this week
Here are five things worth paying attention to this week. These are designed to expose you to a perspective you may not normally come across in your daily lives. 1. Grateful I picked up Diana Butler Bass new book, Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks, late last week and have found it hard to […]
Lent: Sharing ashes on the go toward wholeness
Editor’s note: From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, bloggers for The Mennonite will write reflections on the Lectionary text. All eight reflections will be available at themennonite.org/lent. Sign up for our TMail newsletter and follow us on Facebook to receive the reflections. One of the first times I attended an Ash Wednesday service was during […]
Friday roundup: Five things worth paying attention to this week
Here are five things worth paying attention to this month. I recommend selecting one or two and jumping in over the next week. Homelessness can be addressed if we’re willing to prioritize it, and New Orleans is an example of a policy that works. I don’t usually pay much attention to T.D. Jakes, but his […]
Finding God in improv
This is a web-exclusive article on the theme “Lent: repentance and transcendence.” For more stories on this theme, see the March issue of The Mennonite. These days, I experience transcendence on a regular basis, and I experience it in a place my grandmother does not understand. I find the Spirit of God in a place where […]
Black in America: On coming to terms with our racial history
Photo: Regina Shands Stoltzfus. Photo by Olivia Copsey. This article comes from the March issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Lent: repentance and transcendence.” Read more reflections online or subscribe to receive more original features in your inbox each month. When I was a kid growing up in Ohio, just about every summer our family loaded up the car for a trip […]
Sparking joy by letting go
Photo: A second-hand table and chairs that were refinished by Emily Ralph Servant and her family. Photo provided by author. “Hold each item, one by one,” Marie Kondo instructs families on her Netflix show. Then she says, “Only keep what sparks joy for you.” Everything else can be thanked and let go. Sparks joy. That […]
Sacred sorrow: Joining God in the broken place
Photo: Gabriel Bauman-Baker with his son, Jonathan (Yoni) at Jonathan Noah’s grave. Photo provided. This article comes from the February issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Transformation.” Read more reflections online or subscribe to receive more original features in your inbox each month. We had been married less than a month when the calls began: “This is so hard for me.” “I […]
Consider the Mennonite colleges and universities
This is a web-exclusive article on the theme “Education.” For more stories on this theme, see the January issue of The Mennonite. In my home growing up, it was an expectation that my brothers and I would attend one of the Mennonite colleges for at least one year. My years at a Mennonite college were […]
I was wrong about Christian education
This is a web-exclusive article on the theme “Education.” For more stories on this theme, see the January issue of The Mennonite. I never wanted to send my kids to a Christian school. In fact, I’m pretty sure if you asked young-adult me where I would like my future children to go to school, I would […]
The gospel of Jesus and Paul
Don Blosser asks, “If we let Jesus speak for himself, what would he say?” Blosser goes on to argue that Christians have listened less to Jesus and more to Paul, who preached a gospel at odds with the gospel of Jesus. The church has thus missed much of Jesus’ message. Jesus understood his messianic mission […]
Essay #2, Sara Wenger Shenk: A living faith
Photo: Sara Wenger Shenk speaks at her inauguration as AMBS president in October 2010 at Clinton Frame Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana. Photo by J. Tyler Klassen. Editor’s note: This is the second article in a seven-part series by the presidents of Mennonite Church USA colleges and seminaries. From March to June an article by each […]
Presidents of MC USA colleges and seminaries speak to vision of education
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series by the presidents of Mennonite Church USA colleges and seminaries. The next six articles, one by each president, will be posted every two weeks. The entire series will be available at themennonite.org/mhea. Sign up for our TMail newsletter and follow us on Facebook to receive the articles. […]
Let’s let Jesus speak for himself
Speaking at a meeting in Elkhart, Indiana, Rabbi Marc Ellis identified himself as a follower of Torah. Christians, he said, are followers of Jesus, who was also a rabbi and a teacher of Torah. Surely the followers of Torah and the followers of Jesus have a lot in common. If we let Jesus speak for […]
Mennonite witness amid suffering and hope in Ukraine
Photo: This former Mennonite school served 130 hearing- and speech-impaired children at Tiege in the Molotschna region. When the German army swept through Ukraine, soldiers took the students out to a field and shot them. Photo by J. Nelson Kraybill. In a region of Ukraine that thousands of Mennonites left generations ago, two dozen of […]
What to say on the eve of an election?
Recently, I spoke with a millennial who told me she’s not going to vote. She doesn’t really know the issues, she said. What is more, she doesn’t like what politics does to people and therefore she doesn’t want to participate. I am sympathetic. I would rather be birding than debating national issues. I am by […]
