Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, RCL)

While my thinking on this question has shifted, at the core of my being there is still a well-dressed girl from Queens.

By refusing to swear oaths, 16th-century Anabaptists took away the state’s primary tool for control.

I wonder if what I felt, feared, and learned as a young mother mirrors what God experiences when she tries to feed us.

In the Mennonite tradition, we are all priests. But I still have a particular role to play.

For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.

If so, what did he mean?

In the Hebrew Bible, God’s love is maternal.

It’s not possible to parent without experiencing risk, weakness, pain, and transformation.

We are invited to bring the rich resources of our senses and imaginations into the realm of faith.

According to Isaiah, God has a tattoo!