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The brine of Christianity
I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.
The brine of Christianity
I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.
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.
What we think we know about God
“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.
What we think we know about God
“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.
Extravagant consumption
For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.
Extravagant consumption
For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.
February 22, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Remember you are dust, and to dust you will return. But my sermons!
It’s easy to read this passage and assume it has nothing to do with us.
March 2, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Some years the message of Ash Wednesday feels more tender than others.
Jesus the poet
We are invited to bring the rich resources of our senses and imaginations into the realm of faith.
by Debie Thomas
Mainline Christians have often distorted this passage from Matthew.
The distinctions between how we love God, neighbor, and self are not terribly thick.
What would Jesus say about it?
by Amy Ziettlow
by Amy Ziettlow
Consider the Lilies, by Charalambos Epaminonda
art selection and comment by John Kohan
The gift of relying on others
Briallen Hopper develops an alternative to the twin American creeds of self-reliance and marriage.
Trust and treasure, trust and treasure
by Winn Collier
March 6, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Often our spiritual practices are one more way we refuse to see that all is grace.
by Winn Collier