Jan 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
New York Times / www.nytimes.com / January 4, 2011http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/books/04tolstoy.html?_r=1&ref=global-homeFor Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy EndingBy Ellen Barry and Sophia KishkovskyMoscow — A couple of months ago one of...
Jan 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Toxic Texts: Finding Good News in the Old Testament Many stumble over difficult texts in the Old Testament, finding themselves confused and even repelled. How do we deal with Scriptures that portray God as angry, violent, or vindictive? How do we...
Nov 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Simone Weil, speaking prophetically in the late 30's / early 40's What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war; petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a...
Nov 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Thomas Hardy says of the main character in The Mayor of Casterbridge, Michael Henchard, that “misery taught him nothing more than the defiant endurance of it.” What does misery teach us? What can it teach us? Can it...
Nov 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Signs of God's Kingdom now: witnessing Jesus' work among the Mennonites in Iowa I recently spent four days ministering at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church in Wayland, Iowa. There I witnessed varied signs of Jesus’ Kingdom coming together here...
Nov 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
We had been waiting for this day for years. Prayed for it, talked about it. Now the day was here. Aung San Suu Kyi walked out of her house arrest. It seemed too good to be true. Maybe it is too good to be true.On Saturday November 13th the Burmese junta released Daw...
