Evergreen Place, Greencroft Retirement Assisted Living – Sept. 16, 2021 Today we examine a text from the Wisdom portion of Bible content, from the book titled Proverbs. You will recall that some Bible content reports on history, the story over a period of time of God relating with people. Other sections focus on law or […]
Presented at Vespers, Goshen College, 4-8-90 This meditation appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, DYN, self-published 2020 I am always amazed to learn about original meanings of words, symbols or events within Israel or the early church. Such learning happened this week when I studied the cry “Hosanna” and the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. […]
This article was published in the Gospel Herald in October 4, 1977, pp. 740-41 and appears here with permission. It is an excerpt of my address given to Office ’77, a conference for non-administrative staff of Mennonite institutions held at Akron, PA in June1977. There is no doubt in my mind that Jesus intended that […]
This article was published in the Gospel Herald in October 4, 1977, pp. 740-41 and appears here with permission. It is an excerpt of my address given to Office ’77, a conference for non-administrative staff of Mennonite institutions held at Akron, PA in June1977. There is no doubt in my mind that Jesus intended that […]
(What truth will children be told?) This article appeared in Decades of Feminist Writing self-published in 2020, 16-23. To learn about scripture is a sacred task, a task to be shared by all who claim it. The task shapes and expresses spiritual being. Texts deserve to be known as early hearers knew them, as current […]
These segments could be used on separate occasions by a Worship Leader. The first two segments and the account about Elizabeth bearing a son appeared in Decades of Feminist Writing self-published in 2020. Musing on Ancient Story (A Litany ‘addressed’ to or about several women) When women bible scholars like Savina J. Teubal, Sharon Pace […]
Excerpts of a longer created piece, this reading, appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, self-published 2020, 51-59. A second, related article titled “If You Keep Silent at Such a Time as This . . .” follows here. This piece appeared in the CPT (Christian Peacemaker Teams) Signs of the Times of March 1991. The biblical […]
Jeremiah. 6:14 This speech was first presented with the All-India Mennonite Women’s Retreat, 1998. It appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, self-published, 2020, 250-52. In this session of the Mennonite women’s retreat in India, we think about another context where women long to know peace—the home. Our theme is too complex to offer simple solutions. We […]
Also noting a widow’s account in Luke 18:2-5. This speech was presented at the All–Indian Mennonite Women’s Retreat, October 1998. It appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, self-published in 2020 We are Mennonites. Because we are members of the same Protestant denomination does not mean that we agree on everything, far from it. Nor would total […]
This speech was first presented at the 1998 All-Mennonite Women’s Retreat in India. This article appeared in Decades of Feminist Writing, self-published in 2020, 242-50. When a staff member with the “Mission, Ecumenism and Dialogue” department at Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute in Chennai (formerly Madras), southern India, I was invited by Indian […]