According to the late Alice von Hildebrand, “women have less power and authority than men, but they have something much more important: influence. Authority commands action but influence changes your being.” After first laying some biblical groundwork, I would like to share some memories of my mother. As a woman

Recently, at a large, extended-family Christmas gathering, one of the uncles commented that the family now had achieved five living generations. Those involved had taken pictures, and these were displayed for all to see. Conversations regarding who remembers whom and what year Great-Grandma’s grandpa was born circulated, making the

(Part 2 of 2) Bend the mind with me for a bit, and let’s pretend Christian theological authority was established beyond reasonable doubt to the entire world. All the philosophical, scientific, and historical debates would have been definitively settled. Leaving aside questions as to whether this is possible or

(Part 1 of 2) Granted, most of us aren’t regularly debating atheists or even other Christians. I’m from the hill country of Kentucky where the people we work to reach are not the type to have intellectual problems. Whether or not God is an organism who casts a

How Should an Anabaptist Respond to Climate Change? Climate change. Few words evoke as much emotion in current public discourse. Yet when we strip away the political and ideological baggage, climate change either exists, or it does not. Either the prevailing weather conditions of a region become different over a

Solomon tells us to consider the ant and be wise. Not knowing much about ants, I would like to lift the lid on a beehive and see what wisdom might be gleaned there. Like ants and other communal insects, honeybee colonies are superorganisms. The colony as a whole equals more

Deception. It has been a part of our world since a serpent spoke in the Garden of Eden. Mankind was deceived there, but it took very little time for humanity to pick up the habit themselves and to begin deceiving each other. This modern era in which we find ourselves

Allegiant Flight 611 provides economical air transport between Bozeman and Nashville. Amy and I sat in economy, I at the window, she at the aisle. Our relationship came with this unanticipated bonus compatibility: I want the window to see, she needs the aisle where she can stand and move. We

As this discussion has possibly been one of the most discussed and most argued ones in recent Anabaptist history, I’ve often wondered whether sharing an additional voice is helpful or merely perpetuating a fixation on this topic among our people. However, several factors lead me to feeling this letter

We hunted. When I attempt to trace the origins of this part of family culture back to the beginning, I do not know where it began. Perhaps it was because my father told stories of hunting the Tuscarora Mountain in Pennsylvania. How they would arrive at the foot of the