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May 2019

May 05, 2019
Yesterday afternoon I returned home from AMBS's commencement ceremony to learn that writer Rachel Held...
May 02, 2019
This past Wednesday, the Institute of Mennonite Studies where I work hosted our annual publication...

April 2019

April 25, 2019
Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...
April 19, 2019
In chapter 2 of Fire by Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament,...
April 15, 2019
Palm Sunday is one of those Sundays you look forward to as a kid. The...
April 09, 2019
Melissa Florer-Bixler's book Fire by Night: Finding God in the Page of the Old Testament is...
April 08, 2019
In the winter of 1995, a group of homeless families in Philadelphia took a dramatic...
April 02, 2019
In the case of the Prodigal Son parable, I’m on Team Big Brother. Across the...

March 2019

March 29, 2019
Anabaptists are often accused—and only slightly less-often guilty—of a Marcionite reading of the Bible. Marcion was...
March 21, 2019
In 2008, Houston-area mega-church pastor Kerry Shook and his wife and mission’s director Chris published...
March 14, 2019
Ever since the extent and gravity of John Howard Yoder's sexual offenses have come to...
March 12, 2019
This weekend, after three years of regular bedtime readings, my 9-year-old and I finally finished...
March 07, 2019
Last weekend I had the good fortune of hearing Lisa Sharon Harper speak in South...
March 04, 2019
One cool thing about working at AMBS is that there's a table of free books...

February 2019

February 28, 2019
A few years ago the good people at Sojourners invited me to write a short article...
February 25, 2019
Recently I had a conversation with an AMBS colleague about the distinction between Anabaptism and neo-Anabaptism. After...
February 22, 2019
Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...
February 19, 2019
Here's a roundup of some stories that caught my attention from various Mennonite outlets over...
February 15, 2019
Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...
February 13, 2019
If you're not Mennonite, J. Lawrence Burkholder may be the most influential Mennonite ethicist you...
February 07, 2019
Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...
February 05, 2019
Today for my "Dispatches" post I want to share a bit about Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical...

January 2019

January 31, 2019
Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...
January 30, 2019
Last April, Fuller Seminary president Mark Labberton spoke at a private meeting of evangelical leaders at...
January 24, 2019
Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana),...
January 22, 2019
Last week I posted some dispatches from the Anabaptist ecosystem, which are basically stories from...
January 19, 2019
This weekend I plan to continue a Martin Luther King Jr. Day tradition I started...
January 17, 2019
Lately there’s been debate among old white male pastors like me about whether diversity is...
January 15, 2019
Back in the day, I attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) in Deerfield, Illinois, for...
January 14, 2019
As I mentioned in a previous post about Mennonite historian Harold Bender's seminal essay, "The...
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