Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Church to Church by Shenk

Jan. 2 issue

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  Deepening roots in Brooklyn

  “Welcome, come on in!” said Jason Storbak­ken as he opened the door at 32 Hart St. in Brooklyn. It was a damp evening in New York City, and I was glad to reach my destination after navigating through bustling city traffic.

  While preparing dinner for his 2- and 3-year-old children, Elgin and Chloe, he told me some of Radical Living’s story.
  

Oct. 10, 2011 issue

• Drawn to what they missed

  “Why would people choose to all live together and share their money?” Calenthia Dowdy’s youth ministry student at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa., was sincere in his questioning. And it was not the first time Calenthia got that question. Those most perplexed during the discussion of Christian intentional community were students of color.

Aug. 8, 2011 issue

• Wider circle of discipleship

  For two years I have been visiting discipleship communities as a part of my work with Mennonite Church USA Interchurch Relations. In recent months much of my work has gone into creating the forthcoming Herald Press book Widening the Circle: Anabaptist Experiments in Discipleship.

May 16, 2011 issue

• Why do young people leave?

  People often ask me: Why are so many young people leaving the church?

Feb. 14, 2011 issue

• Inspiration from iconoclasts

  For the past year, I have been working with a team of co-hosts on the Iconocast, a twice-monthly podcast exploring what it means to follow Jesus and embrace his call of liberation from oppression.
  

Dec. 20, 2010 issue

• Conversation opens a door

  When I walked through the doors of Focus on the Family this past April, it had been almost seven years since I was a student there. In 2004, as a senior in college, I spent a semester studying at the Focus Leadership Institute. It was a formative time for me and ultimately what set me on the journey of joining the Mennonite church.

Oct. 18, 2010 issue

• Movement or institution?

  Anabaptism started as a chaotic, courageous and prophetic movement. The first Anabaptists challenged the church institutions of their day — even by storming a worship service and taking over the pulpit.

Aug. 2, 2010 issue

• Connections at the margins

  Anna of Rotterdam, an Anabaptist martyr, advised: “Where you hear of a poor, simple, cast-off little flock, which is despised and rejected by the world, join them.”
  

May 3, 2010 issue

• Connections at the margins

  Last November at the Simple Way, a Christian community in Philadelphia, I sang from a Mennonite hymnal with Simple Way leader Shane Claiborne and others.

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