This original Appendix material dealing with John14:6 and Acts 4:12 appears in Multifaith Musing: Essays and Exchanges self-published by DYN in 2010, 139-48. Undoubtedly, some Christians, on reading this book, will caution, “Yes but, Jesus said, ‘I am the Way. . .’” or “In the book of Acts chapter 4. . .” The ‘staying power’ […]
This article was first published in Gospel Herald, 83/12, March 20 1990, 193-95. It appears here with permission. “Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, ‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’” (Jonah 3:1-2) Is there a word in […]
A Syrophoenician Woman and Jesus a Jewish Man: Mark 7:24-30 (Matthew 15:21-28) Presuming that readers have read the text for this encounter, to note Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza’s book titled But She Said takes on further meaning. That title quotes verse 28 from Mark’s account. When Jesus responded to the woman’s request for healing for her […]
This chapter appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, DYN self-published, 2020 With this biblical study of prophet Jeremiah’s content from Hebrew Scripture, I hope that readers discover something of the religious experience of the people with whom he engaged. Questions emerge: Why did Jeremiah need to present a message of renewal? Was his call for […]
Presented to Association of Anabaptist Missiologists – Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba – Oct. 13, 2007. First published in Mission Focus Annual Review 2007,52-72; appears here with permission Forty-five years ago, I first went to India for three years. That cross-cultural and interreligious context shaped my entire adult experience—parenting and ecumenical tasks, teaching and writing. Feminist […]
Dorothy Yoder Nyce, Lyrics and Narration; Peggy Jenks, Music Composer Created when Staff members at Kodaikanal International School, south India, 1986 First seen through production with KIS Middle School students This chapter appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, DYN self-published, 2020 During the 1976-77 school year our family lived in Cambridge, MA, the four of […]
Names, Titles, Positions, Sexual partner, Equality between sexes, Life storiesGathered from RSV for seminary course 1972 This chapter appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, DYN self-published 2020 Due attention to and respect for Christianity’s Jewish heritage and Jesus’ life-long commitment to Judaism has been overlooked by many Christians. Gathered data like what follows helps a […]
“ The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well A One-Act Play first performed at College Mennonite Church, Goshen, IN, morning worship June 1, 1975. To: Readers (or performers) To help your understanding and reading, here are a few notes. I find this story (John 4:4-42) to be a most rich one. Many interpretations of it have […]
Human Creation Accounts in Genesis 1–3 A quote of writer and scholar Virginia Woolf has hung near my desk for decades. It states: “To have by nature a point of view. To stick to it. To follow it where it leads is the rarest of possessions and lends value even to trifles.” For decades, that […]
This version of the article appears in Decades of Feminist Writing, self-published 2020, 117-29. To engage with early church beginnings, we start with a litany of texts for two readers reading alternately. (identify texts) Mark 6:7-11 Then he summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs giving them authority over the unclean […]