This post contains a diary selection read by our worship leader, Russ Schmidt, plus two reflections on Act 15:1-2, 4-14, 19-20 by Eli Ramer and Eli Reimer. Russ Schmidt’s diary entry The other day I accidentally found my first journal that I started when I was in Mennonite Voluntary Service in Cincinnati. I had just come…
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Last Sunday Sheri exhorted us to claim the authority of compassion as followers of Jesus who are committed to personal and societal transformation. Compassion is not a sentimental pity for those deemed less fortunate. It means to “suffer with” or as Sheri said “to be moved in your…
Matthew 28:16-20, Matthew 9:35-10:4 I don’t like this text (Matthew 28:16-20), and I almost didn’t preach on it because I dislike it so much. Called “the Great Commission,” it’s one of the three main Biblical “texts of terror” used to justify colonization, not to mention really bad missionary theology. It appears to be — or…
By Sheri Hostetler and Joanna Lawrence Shenk This is the third in an Eastertide mini-series called “Rewilding Jesus” that unearths fun and feral images/ideas about Jesus, the Jewish prophet deeply rooted in his place and his community and undomesticated by Empire. The kindom of heaven is like a farmer who sowed good seed in a…
by Joanna Lawrence Shenk This is the second in an Eastertide mini-series called “Rewilding Jesus” that unearths fun and feral images/ideas about Jesus, the Jewish prophet deeply rooted in his place and his community and undomesticated by Empire. John 1:1-5 I confess that given all the bad Christian theology and biblical interpretation out there, I’ve…
This is the first in an Eastertide mini-series called “Rewilding Jesus” that unearths fun and feral images/ideas about Jesus, the Jewish prophet deeply rooted in his place and his community and undomesticated by Empire. Almost a year ago, I was in Milan to officiate the wedding of one of our former MVSers, Alyssa Schrag, and…
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