Brad Roth
Brad Roth is pastor of the West Zion Mennonite Church in Moundridge, Kansas, and author of God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church (Herald Press). He blogs at DoxologyProject.com.
The cross is both foundation and anti-foundation, a disturber of worlds.
By middle-class American standards, the widow's decision is questionable.
The ministry of abiding, even in the face of decline, is an offering to God.