The US media is biased against Palestinians
Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to forget.
An ungovernable faith
By refusing to swear oaths, 16th-century Anabaptists took away the state’s primary tool for control.
Church on the run
If I want kinship with my Anabaptist ancestors, I know where to look: in prison.
The gift of interfaith difference
At the Muslim community center, I felt the tension of our divergence. But I also sensed gratitude.
Women posing problems
In the gospels and in the world today, women get in the way and make the world new.
A pulpit without a context
I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
My son the PK said no to baptism
For now, anyway. After our discernment together, I consider this a success.
Spending Lent with people in recovery
In the company of church members in recovery from addiction, I’m feeling more open to the doctrine of original sin.
Sharing the burden of language disorientation
At my church, some of us are learning Spanish. Others are learning English.
Nature is not an escape
To understand this, I had to stop reading John Muir and turn to the nature writing of the Harlem Renaissance.
As a pastor, it’s my job to pay attention
In the Mennonite tradition, we are all priests. But I still have a particular role to play.
Discerning the body
Bodies get sick. What becomes of a church body when we enact unity at the table while ignoring our brokenness?
Extravagant consumption
For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.
Science fiction writers imagine the way out
Jesus’ parables give us space to see that something else is possible. Writers of new worlds put flesh on these bones.
Jesus’ resurrected gut biome
In John’s Gospel we meet a body of flesh and blood. And microbes.
Our living waters are struggling to breathe
River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.