Time for this to Stop
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to...
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- Dec 14, 2016
Theda Good Ordained
It is an honor to be here and represent the larger BMC community. This seems a beautiful way to end BMC’s 40th Anniversary year; it just...
- Aug 19, 2016
Loving the tradition from the margins: What Malcolm Gladwell is missing about power in his Mennonite
This article was originally posted on Pink Menno's blog. Chester Wenger’s “An open letter to my beloved church” in 2014 was a beautiful,...
- Jan 29, 2016
Coming home to our bodies: trauma and justice
My senior year of high school, I was talking to a school counselor about an experience I had earlier that year with another classmate. As...
- Dec 29, 2015
Pacifist Battlegrounds: The Struggle for Queer Inclusion in a Peace Church
Bethel College Convocation, November 16, 2015 On June 26 of this past summer, at my dining room table with my spouse and several of our...
- Dec 29, 2015
Historically-Grounded Organizing: A Reflection on Stonewall
When the trailer for the Hollywood-produced movie “Stonewall” was released this past August, activists on the internet took to...
- Oct 19, 2015
Untethered...Reflections on Kansas City
Losing faith is not the same as losing belief, but it can break the fragile tether between a person and her innocence just the same. ...
- Aug 1, 2014
A Ruptured Circle
It was a neat and nearly perfect circle of deniability. Denominational leaders would grimace and carefully explain to us how the church...
- Jul 25, 2014
A Pastor's Response
Response to IMMC Statement of Charge against Karl Shelly Greetings to you, sisters and brothers in Christ on the IMMC Ministry...
- Mar 25, 2011
A Singular Purpose
This sermon on 1 Corinthians 7 and Matthew 19 was given by Phil Stoltzfus at Faith Mennonite Church, March 6, 2011, during a series on...
- Apr 26, 2010
Living Side By Side With Difference
"Living Side By Side With Difference" was written for and presented at Central Plains Conference (Mennonite Church USA) Leadership...
- Apr 5, 2010
A Home Like Ruth
I work for Richmond Beach Congregational Church of the United Church of Christ. It’s the middle of my third month here, and slowly as can...
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