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I wrote a short piece for The Mennonite. Here’s an excerpt:
Our Mennonite identity is always disturbed; the church is broken; our congregations are torn. People come and go. Disagreements reemerge and threaten to drive us apart. Congregations dissolve, and others are born.

The church is in a precarious state of unsettled tornness. That’s simply what it [...]

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I wrote a short review of Hauerwas and Coles’ book from last year, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary (Cascade). It appears in the current issue of the Mennonite Weekly Review (May 4, 2009). Here’s an excerpt:
Politics involves all the ways we tend to the common good. This happens in our neighborhoods, not just in [...]

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The good people over at The Mennonite printed a short Advent meditation I wrote on Mary. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Mary shows us how to extend hospitality to God, which is simply what it means to be a disciple. She made room for God’s life within her own. She opened her life, her very [...]

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The Mennonite recently printed a short piece I wrote about church. There’s nothing original about it. I basically rip off a couple lines from an article my friend Peter Dula wrote. His article is much better. You can read what I wrote here: Fugitive Church.
Our communion in Christ’s Spirit is not a possession, something we [...]

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I wrote a little piece on my friends for the Mennonite. I called it “Re-membering Communion.” But the editors like to change things around. Here it is: Are memories our communion?

Here’s a piece of it if you want to get a sense of it:
In worship we open our arms to receive the intimacy of God’s [...]

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I wrote a piece for The Mennonite last year. They published it in the recent June 3, 2008ne 3, 2008English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVWP-Bible plugin issue. The editors introduced some errors into the text, but for the most part it’s what I wrote. For example, despite what the article says, Chapel Hill is not in Durham N.C.—they [...]

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I’ve started writing short pieces for The Mennonite magazine. My first piece appeared in the April 1st issue: “Blessed are those who mourn.” Here’s an excerpt:
Mourning is worship. Sometimes we worship with our tears. To worship any differently would be dishonest and deny what Paul affirms: We preach Christ crucified (1 Cor 1:231 Cor 1:23English: Contemporary English Version (1999) [...]

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