Thoughts on a run after returning from a week of late summer vacation
August 9, 2017 An early morning run along a familiar trail. The air is cool for August. The Olentangy crawls along beside me. There’s a fog over the water, the river in another state, hovering over itself, contemplating its own possibility to float, change, vacate the predictable flow, disappear…
Curiosity and Wondering
Before we put Vacation Bible School (VBS) completely out of our minds, I wanted to take a minute to reflect back on the takeaways from a week that zoomed by so quickly. There were plenty of takeaways about what kinds of things worked well this year and what kinds of…
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…
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…
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…
