Mennonite World Review

Articles : Perspective

Dec. 24, 2012 issue

• How God deals with rejection

  Social media has been abuzz with Mike Huckabee’s response to the “Where was God in Connecticut?” question.

Dec. 10, 2012 issue

• Christmas: Season for courage

  As I held my new grandson in my arms, his dark eyes looked boldly into mine, seeing and yet not seeing. The year was 1979, the year of the Iranian hostage crisis. Our Christmas celebration would be different this year because of this tiny newcomer. His life story had begun; we added a new chapter to ours.

Nov. 26, 2012 issue

• View from the mountain

  I don’t talk very much about my religious beliefs, but because Bethel College has played a big role in my faith the last few years, I’m going to broach the subject.

Nov. 12, 2012 issue

• Declining church in a spiritual culture

  Declining interest in religion has been well documented, but a recent survey by the Pew Forum signals the trend is accelerating.

Oct. 29, 2012 issue

• Reassessing ‘duty’ to vote

  Somewhere over the past 50 years, most mainstream Mennonites decided it was our responsibility to help choose the president of the United States.

Oct. 15, 2012 issue

• Not voting: Is it selfish?

  I live on K Street — yes, that place symbolic of all that’s wrong with Washington. K Street was once the center of lobbying. Today, street vendors, the homeless and prostitutes line K Street before sunrise. I dodge them on early morning runs toward the White House.

Oct. 1, 2012 issue

• Holy humor in Scripture

  The people who first taught me the Bible took it seriously. I do not recall anyone speaking of humor. They were more aware of commandments and tragedy.

Sept. 17, 2012 issue

• A war that should end

  As Christians who have questioned the morality and usefulness of our nation’s armed conflicts, Mennonites in the United States should call and work for the end to a 30-year war by our federal government. It is a war that has produced a wasteful diversion of our financial resources, created millions of harshly punished and disenfranchised citizens and harmed our relations with other countries of our hemisphere. It is time to end the war on drugs.

Sept. 3, 2012 issue

• Reconsidering a reaction

  Every adult in the U.S. remembers where he or she was on Sept. 11, 2001. As we once again approach the anniversary of that fateful day, I find that I’ve only begun to truly grieve for my country in the last few years, more than a decade after the attacks occurred.

Aug. 20, 2012 issue

• Fresh wounds of war

  When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Laos last month, she met Phongsavath Souliyalat, who lost both his hands and his eyesight to a U.S. cluster bomb four years ago on his 16th birthday.

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