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State killing, Christian witnessing

  In 1993 Ron Phillips committed a horrendous crime.  He beat, raped, and murdered a three year old child.  Her name was Sheila Marie Evans.  Phillips confessed his guilt and was given the death penalty.  He is scheduled to be executed by the state of Ohio – that’s you and…

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MCUSA Reflections

Many of you heard some of my thoughts about the MCUSA Convention on Sunday.  (If you missed it, you can find the text of my sermon HERE.)  As a way of continuing the conversation about our time of discerning together as a denomination, we will be sending out reflections from…

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Holy Indifference

  It’s church conference/convention season.  Last weekend was the Central District Conference annual meeting in Bluffton, Ohio.  Next week is the biennial Mennonite Church USA convention, held this year in Orlando, Florida….conveniently close to Harry Potter World, which will be a Christmas in July for our girls. I was so…

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“ …to work amongst…”

  “Try not to think in terms of superimposing our own tastes and objectives on the lives of others but rather to make our energies and talents available to those who would want us to work amongst them.” — Judith Tokel, meeting notes from the American Addition Neighborhood Council, December…

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Homework

  2016 was a big year for news, dominated by the US Presidential campaign.  So guess what the top read New York Times article was for the whole year?  It was an essay by Alain de Botton titled “Why you will marry the wrong person.” The title, and article, is…

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