Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Stephen Kriss

Jan. 16 issue

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  Kriss

  Overcoming evil with good

  Last summer a colleague and I visited with a small immigrant Mennonite congregation near Atlanta as Georgia prepared to implement some of the strictest immigration laws in the country.

  We listened to the congregation’s leaders, their fears and their struggles. I recounted rap lyrics from Jay-Z in my head while responding to questions about the legal obligations of a traffic stop.

Dec. 5, 2011 issue

• Future of seminary training

  Six students and I are exploring Missio Dei (the reign of God) in the basement of New Life Plaza, next to Nueva Vida Norristown (Pa.) New Life Mennonite Church.

Oct. 17, 2011 issue

• Radicals: 1525 and Wall St.

  Anabaptists were called the radical wing of the Reformation. I’ve been thinking about that while teaching a class on Anabaptist history and theology.

Sept. 12, 2011 issue

• Our smaller, fragile world

  On Sept. 11, 2001, I was in the midst of a pastoral team meeting at the Eat-N-Park in suburban Johnstown, Pa. A waitress came over to our table to announce that they’d be dismantling the breakfast buffet, that a state of war existed and that we needed to evacuate the area around the Johnstown airport but that we didn’t need to hurry to finish our meal.

July 4, 2011 issue

• Our fears and possibilities

  Issues that have surfaced around the biennial conventions of Mennonite Church USA have created tensions and nervousness.

May 9, 2011 issue

• Checking my idea of justice

  The afternoon of May 1, I was at the Save-A-Lot on Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia. It’s a discount grocery store full of diverse shoppers scouring for food at bargain prices. It’s the kind of place in Philadelphia where tension often lurks just below the surface of everyday interactions.

March 14, 2011 issue

• Radical history alive in us

  This spring I’m teaching a class on Anabaptist history and theology alongside noted storyteller John Ruth as part of Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s program in Pennsylvania.

Feb. 14, 2011 issue

• Time to show greater love

  Those who worked closely with Mother Theresa of Calcutta say that after difficult conversations she implored, “And now is the time to show greater love.”

Jan. 17, 2011 issue

• Evil signs in holy places

  I’d seen swastikas before, obscure and seemingly random amid scrawls of graffiti.

Sept. 6, 2010 issue

• Ramadan in a time of fear

  As I drove to an evening meeting at my church — made up of many Indonesian Christians who have fled their homeland due to tensions between Christians and Muslims — an electronic billboard reminded me it was the beginning of Ramadan.

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