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March 2023

March 03, 2023

Resistance: Confronting Violence, Power, and Abuse within Peace Churches

In addition to writing and pastoring, one of the hats I wear is managing editor...

July 2021

July 24, 2021

13 anti-oppression summer reads

People sometimes think that because I'm a pastor, editor, and theologian, I must spend a...

April 2021

April 12, 2021

Review of “Tongue-Tied: Learning the Lost Art of Talking About Faith” by Sara Wenger Shenk

Sara Wenger Shenk was president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, from 2010...

September 2019

September 12, 2019

10 anti-oppression reads for pastors in an age of Trump

I preached my first sermon as teaching pastor at Keller Park Church on January 1,...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Melissa Florer-Bixler’s God of Memory (Fire by Night 4)

[This post continues a series on Mennonite pastor and writer Melissa Florer-Bixler’s new book, Fire by...

May 23, 2019

Melissa Florer-Bixler’s God of Victims (Fire by Night 3)

[This post continues a series on Mennonite pastor and writer Melissa Florer-Bixler's new book, Fire by...

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 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 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...

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...