Matthew 6

We each have to face mortality alone—but also together.

Who can sort out the ironies and challenges in these four texts? Where is the joy in this kind of salvation?

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.

Isaiah and Matthew invite us into deeper solidarity. None is well until all are well.

Isaiah and Matthew invite us into deeper solidarity. None is well until all are well.

J. D. Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants reveal his willingness 
to trade his dignity for attention.

J. D. Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants reveal his willingness 
to trade his dignity for attention.

During the pandemic, I went six months without touching another human being. I felt starved.

Praying in community is often more powerful than praying “in secret.”

How did my friend feel making a cross on my forehead, not knowing how long I’d be alive?

I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.

I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.

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

“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.

“Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.

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

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

Remember you are dust, and to dust you will return. But my sermons!

If so, what did he mean?