Finding Peace: A Personal and Vocational Narrative Part 2
In my previous post, I shared of my surprising journey toward pacifism. I found my way to this position due to my engagement of Mennonite theologies and communities and only later discovered the rich...
View ArticleFinding Peace: A Personal and Vocational Narrative Part 3
Finding peace remains an ongoing search. I continue my exegetical and practical quest concerning peace-making. First, as a student of the Scriptures, I persist in my study of peace particularly as...
View ArticleWell, I wanna; But…
A Chinese proverb says, “To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.” Life’s challenges often create uncertainties despite our desire to overcome them. However, there...
View ArticleComplementarianism, Egalitarianism, and Generating Confusion
Recently I read a string of posts that attempt to update evangelicals on the egalitarian/complementarian debate. As I turned to the most recent post by Joe Carter at The Gospel Coalition, it became...
View ArticleHierarchy and Patriarchy in the Complementarian/Egalitarian Debate
Hierarchies are almost always symbolized by pyramid structures although both egalitarians and complementarians would be uncomfortable with the cultural way of defining such structures. Should the...
View ArticleRenewal and Disability: Turning the World Upside Down!
It was at Thessalonica when Paul and his friends were first referred to as “These people who have been turning the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). I have just spent the last week in an intensive and...
View ArticleRenewal and Cancer: Together with God
In December 2010, Larisa Ard Jenkins, wife of Skip Jenkins and mother of four, was diagnosed with a rare, untreatable cancer (neuroendocrine). Surgery removed her kidney, and the doctors reported it...
View ArticleReflections from the Other Side of Adoption
There is a growing trend among Christians to adopt either through international adoptions or in the U.S. The reasons for these adoptions are as various and personal as the adoptive couples who venture...
View ArticleOedipus, Adoption, and the Complexities of Identity
As a historian, I have a strong appreciation for tradition and the way it determines identity. Every human being is traditioned upon entering the world. This is simply a fact of life. For most persons,...
View ArticleGrape Juice, Holiness, and the Creation of a Christian Culture
There is a constant debate about the impact of Christianity upon the United States. If the question is whether the United States is a Christian nation, then the answer must be no. There is no...
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