I was a young pastor when the KKK came to our town. The rally was just three blocks from our home in a town where my two children attended school and my wife taught and where I pastored a CMC church. On Saturday, July 17,

The leaders of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S.’ supporting denominations – Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches, Brethren in Christ U.S., CMC (Conservative Mennonite Conference), LMC – a fellowship of anabaptist churches, Mennonite Church USA and U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches – together requested that MCC

This season of uncertainty and unpredictability prompted my curiosity about the response of various friends of Jesus to the shock wave of the last week of Jesus’ life. How did they experience Easter morning’s disruption of the haze of grief and loss they were stumbling

While I enjoy reading magazine and newsletter articles, and I’m often inspired and challenged by them, I rarely remember them more than a month or two later. One exception would be an article in the Beacon some years ago entitled “Things I Would Do Differently”