Anabaptist and Quaker essays, sermons, and other writings
This year at the first-ever online Annual Conference for the Church of the Brethren, there was understandably a good amount of discussion around the COVID-19 pandemic. There were mentions of the ways that it made it harder for us to connect, the ways it made our beloved traditions just a […]
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves. – George Eliot, Middlemarch Look up, Friends. Over your head hovers a crown of everlasting life. – But that’s right, you don’t see it, do you? We know it’s there, […]
One of the most significant themes from Hebrew scripture that many Christians overlook is that of the land–a land with which God promises to bless the people. Perhaps that aversion contains some awareness of just how problematic it has been when Christians have laid claim to some of those “land” […]
Why join one of the Historic Peace Churches? Jesus is at the center of this question. Jesus is at the center of this passage (Romans 5:1-11). Jesus at the center of our faith. Jesus is the source of our strength. Jesus is the source of our peace. Jesus is the […]
In a lot of the scholarship on homiletics – the study of preaching, its approaches and methods – Christian preachers are enjoined to have in our uppermost consciousness the imperative to preach the Good News, to ask, of each passage of scripture on which we are called to preach, what […]