Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Celeste Kennel-Shank

Dec. 19, 2011 issue

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  Sacrificial year-end giving

  Each year signs of the holidays appear: lights on trees, candles in windows, calendars on sale in local businesses. For some of us, another item on that list is a growing pile of end-of-the-year appeals from nonprofit organizations.

  The pile, along with each letter, poses a challenge: Where and how should we give whatever we have to give at this time of year?

Nov. 14, 2011 issue

• A full life, joyfully shared

  Cookie Wiebe lived simply, but she also lived fully. My thoughts turned to her often on Nov. 1, All Saints Day, a time to remember those who have lived in the ways of God’s reign. Cookie had died of cancer at 57 the day before.

Sept. 26, 2011 issue

• Gift of life

  When asked how he has been since becoming a kidney donor, Dan Coyne pours forth information about living donor registries, the high cost of dialysis and the need for education.

Aug. 22, 2011 issue

• Violence is such a waste

  I always try to look for ways to reduce waste, checking which food in the fridge needs to be eaten before it goes bad, turning off the lights in the copier room at my job when others have left for the day, composting food scraps while making meals.

July 18, 2011 issue

• Established on the waters

  in the Southwest U.S. earlier this year, I was conscious of how much water I used each time I washed my hands, took a shower or filled up my canteen.

May 16, 2011 issue

• Taking a saint off a pedestal

  Paul the apostle in his letters to early assemblies of believers often addresses them as saints, or holy ones. Yet even for those of us who cherish and carefully study those letters, the question of what it means to be a saint can be puzzling.

April 18, 2011 issue

• Giving up the complications

  Early in the season of Lent each year we remember Jesus’ 40 days of temptation in the wilderness. Through these weeks we try to find in ourselves a bit of Jesus’ strength to endure the testing and turn to God in worship and service.

March 21, 2011 issue

• Trying to do my small part

  Nearly every day I pass a coal-fired power plant, and watch as it blows gray billows out of its smokestack.

Feb. 21, 2011 issue

• Staying warm, my own way

  After Chicago’s blizzard in the first week of February and several days of temperatures just above or dipping below zero, I’m ready for spring.

• Many styles, one Spirit of song

  CHICAGO — When Rodrick Dixon starts to sing “Comfort Ye,” audience members clap and tap their feet with the rhythm. His voice carries over the orchestra and jazz band.

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