Zeitgeitsts
Future generations always demonize the ethical blinds of the past. It is easy for us to demonize the choices of Columbus or Andrew Jackson, because their culture treated other races as less than human....
View ArticleMennonite Narratives on Heterosexual Privilege
Last Thursday, I had a conversation with a professor and a fellow student that gave me a window on the Mennonite narratives on heterosexual privilege. We had discussed Obama’s speech and white...
View ArticleIt’s the economy, stupid.
I don’t really like calling people names like “stupid” but the title was too much too resist. My apologies. I was discussing the gentrification of Baltimore recently online. I understand concerns about...
View ArticleImmigration Through the Lens of Anabaptist History
This piece was originally published in the AMIGOS Update for Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada for May (see their archive for more info about AMIGOS). “To authentically respond to...
View ArticleOwning women you’ve never met.
I have a confession to make: I’ve never looked at porn. Okay, that’s a lie. But here’s the truth…….I’ve never sought out porn. Ever. Sure, there have been times in High School when a guy flipped me a...
View ArticleWelcome to Grand Central Station
Like an episode of C.O.P.S. the names here have been changed to protect the innocent. Hamilton is in N.E. Baltimore, which is in Maryland, which is in the Eastern United States located in North...
View ArticleSexual harassment as disease and political tool in Egypt
crossposted from As of Yet Untitled. Yesterday in my daily BBC feed I came across six horrifying stories from Egyptian women who experience regular sexual harassment. The psychic effect on women comes...
View Article“If you need help, DON’T go to a Mennonite”
I just received a post from a man in Pennsylvania who is responding to an essay on “Dehumanization of the Homeless” on the Mennonite Poverty Forum. (This post is edited some, so if you want to read the...
View ArticleProposition Hate
Tuesday was quite the night. Like Celeste, I found my way to Grant Park (coveted tickets for the official campaign event in hand) and joined the crowd of a hundred thousand gathered to scream, cry,...
View ArticleBaltimore’s Progressive Catholic Church
It would be unfair to label Saint Sebastian’s Independant Catholic Church a “gay church”. But it’d be unfair not to mention that, perhaps, they are very into the gay happenings in Baltimore and...
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Minarets, church towers and Babel
I don’t know whether in the States you have noticed the debate about the Swiss people’s decision last Sunday (29th of November) to amend their constitution to forbid minarets. Here in Germany and the...
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Reflections from Bolivia
I just got back from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Â Our church took a group of 10 high schoolers on a week and a half long service trip. Â Our primary work was on the Samuelito Daycare building, a project of...
View ArticleImmigration and the Church in Phoenix
I live in Phoenix, the front line in the war against the tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to be free. I would imagine everything here looks pretty awful from the outside, seemingly without a...
View ArticleRunning in Fear
Ever feel like you’re somewhere where you shouldn’t be? Yesterday I was running on the Coal & Coke Trail outside Mount Pleasant when I found myself in the midst of hunting season in Western PA....
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Ask: Why is Your House Empty?
….Dedicated to this dying Child. A child dying in the streets of the crowded Warsaw Ghetto, where hunger and disease killed 43,000 in 1941 alone.[92] You told me that: “This is your house and you can...
View Articletell a story
I was a senior in high school in September 2001. I was to have a cross-country meet that Tuesday evening, the 11th, and the boy’s soccer team at my school was to play its archrival. I remember not...
View ArticleManifesto of the Mennonite Anti-Mission Association
We are Mennonites (and fellow travelers) who reject the church’s mission activities. We believe Christian mission, historically, goes hand-in-hand with cultural destruction. We love human diversity and...
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“I once was raised, but now I’ve found” featuring Drew GI Hart
Today continues with the series, “I once was raised… but now I’ve found…” where some of my favorite authors, bloggers, scholars, and theologians explain the transitions they have encountered along...
View ArticlePitfalls and Proposals for the Post Christendom Reformation
There is a growing movement of pastors, church planters, and churches around the globe who have become convinced that the center of the Gospel is a Jesus-looking God who calls his people to partner...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the MCUSA
When I began looking for an Anabaptist congregation, I was immediately drawn to the San Antonio Mennonite Church here in the Alamo City. Truth be told, I probably would have stayed within our...
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