The World Together blog
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Methods for studying the Scriptures
Christine Sine
In this second post in a series, I will focus on different methods for studying the Scriptures — not specifically different techniques but rather different attitudes of heart.
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How you can #OccupyWallStreet three times a day #BAD11
Tom Airey
This blog is part of Blog Action Day 2011 via #BAD11.
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The moral ambiguity of food distribution #BAD11
Alan Stucky
This blog is part of Blog Action Day 2011 via #BAD11.
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10 Mennonite and Amish myths and misbeliefs
Harvey Yoder
1. Are Mennonites just a more progressive group of Amish? No. Anabaptists, not Amish, are the ancestors of today’s Mennonites. Anabaptists emerged in western Europe in 1525, nearly 150 years before Jacob Amman and his Amish branch of the movement. Anabaptists advocated a “free church” based on voluntary baptism and church membership. While supporting many of the reforms of Martin Luther in Germany and Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin in Switzerland, they promoted what was then the radical belief in complete freedom of religion, and were against requiring membership in any established state church, whether Protestant or Catholic. They saw mandatory infant baptism — which in those days registered children as members of the church and citizens of the state — as violating the freedom of individuals to choose faith for themselves.
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An Open Letter to Occupiers from a veteran troublemaker
Jim Wallis
You have awakened the sleeping giant, too long dormant, but ever present, deep in the American democratic spirit. You have given voice and space to the unspoken feelings of countless others about something that has gone terribly wrong in our society. And you have sparked a flame from the embers of both frustration and hope that have been building, steadily, in the hearts of so many of us for quite some time.
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Is postmodern Christianity dead?
Christian Piatt
Some people find great pleasure in being the first to claim the death of the latest thing to capture our collective imagination. You can see it everywhere in the worlds of fashion, art and technology, but this jadedness has crept into religion too.
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An occupation of love, grace and courage
Bert Newton
I finally got myself down to Occupy L.A. this weekend. My wife and I took them some food —bread and peanut butter and jelly, for which they were exceedingly grateful.
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Hero worship of U.S. soldiers
Brian R. Gumm
In a recent New York Times op-ed, William Deresiewicz wrote that “no symbol is more sacred in American life right now than the military uniform.”
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Why do people think I’m a terrorist?
Jon Huckins
Though we had only met each other a few days before, my friend looked at me with tears welling up in his eyes and said, “I am a Christian. I believe in Jesus the Messiah. Why do people in your country think I am a terrorist?” I was left speechless, confused and sad.
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My disappointment in Obama, and especially the Republicans
Tony Campolo
The other day, I listened to Fox News. Fair and balanced, they say? All I heard was how terribly Barack Obama has served this country and how wonderful the Republicans are. Fox News held up President Obama’s low approval ratings, pointing out that only 42 percent of the American people believe he is exercising good leadership. Of course, what they did not bring to anyone’s attention was that the same survey indicated only 13 percent of the American people believe the Republicans in Congress are exercising good leadership.
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