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I preached my first sermon as teaching pastor at Keller Park Church on January 1,...

While studying at Baylor University, I had the pleasure of meeting and befriending fellow Baylor...

While studying at Baylor University, I had the pleasure of meeting and befriending fellow Baylor...

While studying at Baylor University, I had the pleasure of meeting and befriending fellow Baylor...

[This open letter is a guest post from my co-pastor, Carrie Badertscher. She writes this...

Two weeks ago my family and I were gearing up to head to Kansas City,...

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

[This post continues a series on Mennonite pastor and writer Melissa Florer-Bixler’s new book, Fire by...

[This post continues a series on Mennonite pastor and writer Melissa Florer-Bixler's new book, Fire by...

When I was a kid, I lived in a neighborhood with a bunch of other...

In 1984, Alberta Billy, an Aboriginal member of the United Church of Canada, or UCC,...

Yesterday afternoon I returned home from AMBS's commencement ceremony to learn that writer Rachel Held...

This past Wednesday, the Institute of Mennonite Studies where I work hosted our annual publication...

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

In chapter 2 of Fire by Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament,...

Palm Sunday is one of those Sundays you look forward to as a kid. The...

Melissa Florer-Bixler's book Fire by Night: Finding God in the Page of the Old Testament is...

In the winter of 1995, a group of homeless families in Philadelphia took a dramatic...

In the case of the Prodigal Son parable, I’m on Team Big Brother. Across the...

Anabaptists are often accused—and only slightly less-often guilty—of a Marcionite reading of the Bible. Marcion was...

In 2008, Houston-area mega-church pastor Kerry Shook and his wife and mission’s director Chris published...

Ever since the extent and gravity of John Howard Yoder's sexual offenses have come to...

This weekend, after three years of regular bedtime readings, my 9-year-old and I finally finished...

Last weekend I had the good fortune of hearing Lisa Sharon Harper speak in South...

One cool thing about working at AMBS is that there's a table of free books...

A few years ago the good people at Sojourners invited me to write a short article...

Recently I had a conversation with an AMBS colleague about the distinction between Anabaptism and neo-Anabaptism. After...

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

Here's a roundup of some stories that caught my attention from various Mennonite outlets over...

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...