Journeying with the Anabaptists
I am currently participating in an online course through the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary called “Exploring Anabaptist History and Theology.” Because I attended a Methodist seminary, this is a chance for me to gain more formal training in the history of the tradition in which I am now ministering. Like…
Sanctuary so far…
Two weeks ago today three of us from CMC sat around a table at which Edith Espinal made the decision to go into sanctuary in a local congregation to avoid imminent deportation. After one location quickly fell through, we found ourselves being asked whether the Mennonites would be able to…
Participant-Observer
I’m getting caught up on On Being podcasts, and just listened to Krista Tippet’s conversation with Mary Catherine Bateson. She’s the author of the book Composing a Life, and daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. One of the things she touches on is the value of being…
The past and the present
In November of 1957 a group of students in Columbus started meeting together. They were all from other places. What they shared in common was an upbringing in a Mennonite congregation, and a desire to fellowship with each other. As the group grew, they went from informal gatherings to establishing…
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…
