Articles : Life of the Body
Oct. 17, 2011 issue
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Faith that lives in each of us
As I spent time with Mennonite congregations across the United States this past year, I found myself drawn into a living Anabaptism. I heard echoes of the past resounding in their cultures of worship, inviting me to belong, to be at home.
At Iglesia Menonita Luz del Evangelio in Dallas, during a meal after the worship service, a woman and I talked about how we became Mennonite.
May 9, 2011 issue
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Earthly life, heavenly life
BURAS, La. — After driving an hour and a half south of New Orleans, I find myself near the edge of Louisiana, the southernmost tip of Plaquemines Parish, in a small community called Buras, surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico.
March 7, 2011 issue
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Creation and God’s mission
Freeman, S.D. — As I walked the gravel road alongside Tim and Carol Graber’s farm, a line from Pastor Eric Deckert’s sermon bounced around in my head: “God is already speaking,” Deckert preached that morning at Salem-Zion Mennonite Church. “God speaks through the beauty of creation.”
Dec. 6, 2010 issue
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Breathing the Spirit’s song
Chicago — After the Sunday morning worship service, members of Chicago Community Mennonite Church gather for a hymn sing at Heritage Woods, a low-income assisted-living community on the west side of Chicago.
Oct. 18, 2010 issue
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Your people are mine too
As I drove north on Kansas highway 15 to Goessel, with miles of wheatfields in every direction, I remembered the picture of Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church I had seen a month before on a dining room wall in San Francisco.
Sept. 6, 2010 issue
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Guests in a Jewish house
SAN FRANCISCO — My wife and I walk down Dolores Street to the address listed
Aug. 9, 2010 issue
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Door open to the city, world
LANCASTER, Pa. — A crowd assembles along the sidewalk in front of East Chestnut Street Mennonite Church on a Monday evening.
July 19, 2010 issue
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Faith handed down, yet new
BOONSBORO, Md. — A handful of people file into the nursery on Tuesday morning for prayer at Mount Zion Mennonite Church. I take a seat in the circle, in a rocking chair with a changing table for babies at my back.
June 21, 2010 issue
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Worship with God’s pueblo
DALLAS — The Bible study before the Sunday morning worship service of Iglesia Menonita Luz del Evangelio turns into a passionate sermon.
May 10, 2010 issue
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Road trip to seek God’s face
“God is here among us,” we sing as we assemble for worship. “Let us all adore him and with awe appear before him.”
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