Anabaptist and Quaker essays, sermons, and other writings
The doorbell rings, and there, standing on the mat, are a pair of door-to-door evangelists: Jehovah’s Witnesses, maybe, or Latter-Day Saints, or something else. We’re sure that if we let them in, we’re going to end up disagreeing in a way that leaves everybody feeling icky. They’ll want us “saved,” […]
The author has requested a link be provided to the Langston Hughes poem “Let America be America Again.” Please consider meditating on the poem before reading the sermon below. Thank you. Let’s start off by each answering one question, just for ourselves: How far back are “the good old days” […]
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” In John 16:20-22, Jesus gives an example of a difficult experience that ends in comfort and joy. The intensity of labor seems like it will never end, but new life lies on the other side. In Revelation 7:13-17, the martyrs […]
In 2017, I was blessed to be able to travel to Europe for the third time in my life. My first trip was in early 2005, when a companion and I went to visit a relative who was studying at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and from there spent […]