Resistance and Rest
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the relationship between resistance and rest. Put another way, how does actively and openly confronting our cultural pathologies of greed, violence, and racism relate with things that restore our souls, things we enjoy for their own sake – time with friends, eating good…
Communing with the World
This coming Sunday we will be celebrating World Communion Sunday with faith communities around the world. This annual event is a chance to practice unity across denominational, political, social, and other boundaries that so often only serve to separate us. While this event focuses on promoting unity within the global…
Rental Registry Rising
BREAD…Rises. Last evening 11 of us from Columbus Mennonite joined a full house at City Hall for a hearing on a proposed rental registry, headed by Council Member Nick Bankston. The overwhelming majority of folks in attendance were from BREAD congregations, our interfaith organization that does advocacy for local justice…
We Rise
Two and a half weeks ago, Central District Conference (CDC) leaders held our annual visioning retreat in our church building. As part of the opening meditation, Conference Minister Doug Luginbill played the song “We Rise” by Batya Levine. The soulful lyrics wove their way into our process of creating the…
500 and Counting
Mennonites are part of a movement known as Anabaptism that erupted in central Europe 500 years ago. “Anabaptist” (meaning Re-Baptizer) was not a chosen name. Critics created it to highlight the key act that set these folks apart. At a time when the universal baptism of infants issued one not…