When power dynamics impact relationships
Power does funny things to relationships. It changes the dynamics of how relationships form and grow and become.
When I met my first friend in...
The words we sing
It’s been about 40 years since contemporary worship music first started showing up in Mennonite Brethren churches. Since that time, it has easily overtaken...
The place God called me
In anticipation of the USMB study conference on women in vocational ministry hosted by the U.S. Board of Faith and Life Jan. 14-16 in...
Christian unity in spite of global diversity
When we speak of the global church of Christ, the apostle Paul’s first letter to the church at Corinth offers a helpful point of...
Thinking about the atonement
Christ died and rose for our salvation. But what does that mean? How does it work? The biblical doctrine of the atonement has been...
Ten steps to becoming a praying church
I love the picture in Revelation 4 of John entering into the throne room and thepresence of God. John finds himself in a scene...
Caring for God’s creation
Earlier this winter over coffee at Wendy’s in Hillsboro, Kansas, I fielded a question from one of the Ebenfeld MB Church farmers crowded around...
Real simple sharing
It was late, and I had a 45-minute drive ahead of me. I was already groggy, and so I pulled into a Get ‘n...