Articles : Everyday Peacebuilding
March 19, 2012 issue
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The high cost of being right
Everyday Peacebuilding is about living the ministry of reconciliation that has been entrusted to us in 2 Corinthians 5. This is the final time I will be contributing this column and trying to convey this message.
I am grateful to Mennonite Weekly Review and the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution for this opportunity. I want to offer a few closing reflections from my work with congregations.
Jan. 23, 2012 issue
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Forgiveness norms
In my last column I said forgiveness isn’t seasonal. It should be embodied as a permanent part of us. Forgiveness isn’t like a prescription, kept on the shelf in a closet, available in case we need to take a dose.
Oct. 17, 2011 issue
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The pain and the promise
In Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), authors Carol Tavris and Eliot Aronson examine our propensity to blame others when things don’t go well.
Aug. 8, 2011 issue
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Scripture under microscope
The Mennonite Church USA convention last month included the Pittsburgh Experiment. The goal was to focus on what unites us and to show love when we disagree. Part of the experiment was a conversation room, a place to discuss controversial issues in a safe, prayerful environment.
May 2, 2011 issue
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Hearts turned toward love
The closing words of the Old Testament from the Book of Malachi read, “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
April 4, 2011 issue
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Throwing acid on the enemy
After the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., in January that resulted in several deaths and a near-lethal injury to congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a word often heard in the media was “vitriol.”
March 7, 2011 issue
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They don’t serve bread here
Life is not defined so much by the events we experience as by the attitude with which we respond to those events.
Feb. 7, 2011 issue
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Radical openness to God
This year’s School for Leadership Training at Eastern Mennonite Seminary entertained a powerful question, “What do the fresh new forms of the work of the Spirit look like in our time?”
Oct. 25, 2010 issue
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Almost nothing’s easy at first
This column hasn’t appeared for a while because in July we moved from North Newton, Kan., to Lancaster County, Pa.
June 7, 2010 issue
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Where’s a model of civility?
The U.S. government has become so polarized that politicians seem incapable of finding their way to constructive decisions.
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