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…

  “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…

  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…

I know you all have been waiting with bated breath, but wait no longer because the results of the 12 Hymn Nominations are in!  But first, I feel like I should acknowledge that these results were not obtained in any real scientific way, and there were probably a number of…

  In the last week and a half our family has enjoyed three excellent and thought provoking films, all based on real life events. Hidden Figures Perhaps the most remarkable and scandalous aspect of this story is that it hasn’t been widely told until now.  Who knew that the US…