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From a very early age, I experienced God’s love through the beauty around me. I felt God’s faithfulness as I marveled at the sky change in and out of its many coats. I felt God’s goodness as I held up a piece of kim (Korean for “seaweed”) against the beaming sun and counted all its glorious shades […]

Here are five things worth paying attention to this month. I recommend selecting one or two and jumping in over the next week. 1. I recently finished reading (actually, listening to) The Alchemist, and it reads like a pre-modern version of my own life and longing. If you’ve never read it, stop what you’re doing […]

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. Rachel Held Evans called every woman to step boldly into her own place. We find ourselves a part of a worldwide digital community sharing grief […]

I, Paul, travel a lot for work. A favorite ritual after each trip is to try and bring some of the new flavors back to our table in Haiti. In a small way, it makes these long trips and hard-to-imagine places a little more understandable for our two curious toddlers. This Lebanese-inspired cucumber and tomato […]

The closing worship service for #MennoCon19, the Mennonite Church USA convention to be held in July, will be based on Jesus’ sending words to his disciples in John 20. Traditionally, the sending message at the end of our national conventions is a charge to answer the call to live into the great commission and witness […]

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. Deb Detwiler Late last month, my Goshen community lost Dr. Deb Detwiler, professor of music at Goshen (Indiana) College. For over 20 years she taught […]

Dear Rachel Held Evans, I’m writing with an overdue note of appreciation. Last week’s news of your passing shook me at a deeper level than I anticipated, and I wondered if putting words on paper would help me process some of what I have felt. I think my first memory of you was hearing about […]