Gen. 18:1-10; Lk 24:13-19, 28-32 Sermon Sept. 6, 2009, Eighth St. Mennonite Church, Goshen, IN No doubt many messages from pulpits today connect to the Labor Day holiday. Labor, both within and beyond the home, is important. Notably for those who struggle to find or hold on to a job, support from worship groups matters. […]
Paul Wiebe’s Heirs and Joint Heirs Mission to Church among the Mennonite Brethren of Andhra Pradesh. 2010 and Peter Penner’s Russians, North Americans, and Telugus The Mennonite Brethren Mission in India 1885-1975. 1997 For Mission Focus Annual Review – November 2011; reprinted in M.B. Mennonite Historian, June 2012. Appears here with permission This review engages […]
Sermon given as part of seminary Preaching course (College Mennonite Church, Goshen). Also preached at Lombard Mennonite, Lombard, IL & Rockway Mennonite, Kitchener, Ontario The 8th Psalm that we engage today appears in the ‘praise-thanksgiving’ category. Psalms also express lament and retell history. Many combine shorter segments. The total book comprises five earlier collections. Instruments […]
Stephanie Vandrick is Professor of Rhetoric and Language at the University of San Francisco, Review forthcoming in Anabaptist Witness Vandrick offers perspective from a distinct minority group. Herself a daughter of a close-knit missionary doctor’s family in India for ten years (when ages 2-7 and 10-15), Vandrick highlights adult writing by 42 individuals who were […]
Medley of OT/Hebrew Scriptures focused on God/God of the Nations and Mark 7:24-30 Gen. 9:8-17 (summarized); Deut. 10:17; Isa. 56:6-8; Amos 9:7; Jonah 1:7-16 (summarized) Micah 4:2; Mal. 1:11. This sermon appeared in my self-published book titled Decades of Feminist Writing, 2020 As is our pattern, we have gathered today to worship the One God—God […]
Texts – Genesis 9:8-17; Amos 9:7-8 Sermon, 8th St. Mennonite, Oct 22, 2006 One of the wisest choices that John and I made during our first year of marriage was to teach at Woodstock School in India for three years. We have returned to that land of sacred mystery seven times since the early ‘60s […]
Wisdom or Folly: Thoughts of Religious Superiority. Initially published in Mission Focus Annual Review vol. 14, 2006, 211-30; appears here with permission. Introduction How will religions move toward greater good-will? Due to discontent between living faiths, our world is less secure. To value a particular religious tradition is in itself worthy, a basic human right. […]
Knitter, Paul. Introducing Theologies of Religions, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002. A Response by DMin student Dorothy Yoder Nyce, September 2004 A short response does not do justice to the extensive content of this useful resource. Knitter’s depth of engagement with the issues and writers of theologies of religions soon reveals itself. Not immune to […]
Arvind Sharma, ed. Why I Am a Believer Personal Reflections on Nine World Religions,A Review, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009, 378 pp. The strength of this book, edited by noted informant of diverse religions Arvind Sharma, is that people loyal to religions creatively explain why their religion matters to them. Writers make clear […]