It’s the middle of summer, and plants are popping off and everything is in season. There are four or five amazing essays I could write. I want to. I’ve tried to. But I can’t. I am paralyzed. I can’t write more than a few sentences on any of those topics because I am debilitated. I …| Anabaptist World
Shame steals determination and willpower. And we don’t overcome shame with willpower. Shame is overcome by grace. Shame can’t be beaten; it must be released.| Anabaptist World
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I am writing about this now because it would be easy to judge those who cry out for the Epstein list to be revealed. I think it has become such a political issue that we stop thinking of what is really at the core: Who are the people targeting and harming our children? It isn’t just a conspiracy theory; these issues are real and they happen in our families and in our churches, even our good pious Mennonite ones.| Anabaptist World
Since we started writing for Anabaptist World in November 2023, our bio has read, “Alisha and Josh Garber are in a season of discernment.” That changes today. Fifteen years ago, we boarded a plane to lead an English camp in the Czech Republic. We thought we were simply testing a call – but it became …| Anabaptist World
What does it mean to share the gospel of an inverted Kingdom with a captive audience of urban preteens, many of whom have been discarded and further marginalized by the “kingdom” they live in?| Anabaptist World
The Mennonite Church USA convention’s July 9 worship service in Greensboro, N.C., featured a 62-year-old sermon. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the sermon in 1963. It was based on the convention’s theme scripture, Luke 4, which begins with Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness. Guest speaker Lerone A. Martin read the sermon, presenting it as a …| Anabaptist World
