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May 2019

May 05, 2019

Rachel Held Evans: A Remembrance

Yesterday afternoon I returned home from AMBS's commencement ceremony to learn that writer Rachel Held...

May 02, 2019

Celebrating recent Anabaptist-Mennonite publishing

This past Wednesday, the Institute of Mennonite Studies where I work hosted our annual publication...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

Repentance: A Jubilee Sermon (Luke 3:1–20)

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

April 19, 2019

Melissa Florer-Bixler’s God of Neighbors (Fire by Night 2)

In chapter 2 of Fire by Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament,...

April 15, 2019

“The Way to Peace”: A Palm Sunday Homily (Luke 19:28–44)

Palm Sunday is one of those Sundays you look forward to as a kid. The...

April 09, 2019

Melissa Florer-Bixler’s God of Reckoning (Fire by Night 1)

Melissa Florer-Bixler's book Fire by Night: Finding God in the Page of the Old Testament is...

April 08, 2019

“You will always have the poor among you” (John 12:1–8)

In the winter of 1995, a group of homeless families in Philadelphia took a dramatic...

April 02, 2019

“We must celebrate with a feast”: A Lenten Sermon (Luke 15:11–32)

In the case of the Prodigal Son parable, I’m on Team Big Brother. Across the...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Melissa Florer-Bixler’s Fire by Night

Anabaptists are often accused—and only slightly less-often guilty—of a Marcionite reading of the Bible. Marcion was...

March 21, 2019

“Go tell that fox!”: A Lenten Sermon (Luke 13:31–35)

In 2008, Houston-area mega-church pastor Kerry Shook and his wife and mission’s director Chris published...

March 14, 2019

Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Anabaptist Theology through the Wisdom of Women

Ever since the extent and gravity of John Howard Yoder's sexual offenses have come to...

March 12, 2019

Tempted by the Devil: A Lent Sermon (Luke 4:1–13)

This weekend, after three years of regular bedtime readings, my 9-year-old and I finally finished...

March 07, 2019

Lisa Sharon Harper on the Very Good Gospel

Last weekend I had the good fortune of hearing Lisa Sharon Harper speak in South...

March 04, 2019

Concern Pamphlet Series and the Genesis of Neo-Anabaptism

One cool thing about working at AMBS is that there's a table of free books...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence

A few years ago the good people at Sojourners invited me to write a short article...

February 25, 2019

Anabaptism or Neo-Anabaptism—What’s the Difference?

Recently I had a conversation with an AMBS colleague about the distinction between Anabaptism and neo-Anabaptism. After...

February 22, 2019

Recovery: A Jubilee Sermon (Luke 18:31–43)

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

February 19, 2019

Dispatches from the Anabaptist Ecosystem (2/19/19)

Here's a roundup of some stories that caught my attention from various Mennonite outlets over...

February 15, 2019

Remembrance: A Jubilee Sermon (Luke 22:14–20)

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

February 13, 2019

#MennoControversy: Was J. Lawrence Burkholder Censored?

If you're not Mennonite, J. Lawrence Burkholder may be the most influential Mennonite ethicist you...

February 07, 2019

Rest-oration: A Jubilee Sermon (Luke 6:1–11)

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

February 05, 2019

Dispatches from the Anabaptist Ecosystem (AMBS edition)

Today for my "Dispatches" post I want to share a bit about Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Release: A Jubilee Sermon (Luke 8:26–39)

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana), celebrated...

January 30, 2019

Are There Normative and Defective Definitions of Evangelicalism?

Last April, Fuller Seminary president Mark Labberton spoke at a private meeting of evangelical leaders at...

January 24, 2019

Revolution: A Jubilee Sermon (Luke 4:14–30)

Last year the church where I serve as teaching pastor, Keller Park Church (South Bend, Indiana),...

January 22, 2019

More Dispatches from the Anabaptist Ecosystem

Last week I posted some dispatches from the Anabaptist ecosystem, which are basically stories from...

January 19, 2019

My New MLK Day Tradition

This weekend I plan to continue a Martin Luther King Jr. Day tradition I started...

January 17, 2019

Diversity and the Gospel: A Chapel Sermon

Lately there’s been debate among old white male pastors like me about whether diversity is...

January 15, 2019

10 Contemporary Evangelicalisms

Back in the day, I attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) in Deerfield, Illinois, for...

January 14, 2019

The Anabaptist Ecosystem: Dispatches from the Mennonite World

As I mentioned in a previous post about Mennonite historian Harold Bender's seminal essay, "The...