It isn’t easy to share our vulnerable moments. We all want to look good and present our best to others. Yet I believe it is important to be honest with ourselves, with God, and with others. What you are about to read places me in a vulnerable place, because it...

This article was originally published by Mennonite World ReviewIt was also published in The Messenger When we believe we are right about something, how do we behave? How do we treat those with whom we disagree? I’m not talking about issues of sin, but what of disputable matters — issues...

This article was originally published in The Messenger What happens when you disagree with someone? How do you respond when you encounter an idea that is so very different that you feel it is inherently incompatible with some of your core beliefs? These sorts of encounters often lead to dramatic conflict...

This article was originally published in The Messenger. If we as Christians have a kind of spiritual experience, we may wonder whether it is a prompting from the Holy Spirit and how to process that experience. If it was God speaking to us, how do we know it was truly Him?...

This article was published in The Messenger In the culture in which we find ourselves it is popular to be critical, cynical, and to complain about the deficiencies we see in the world around us. All too often we as the church simply follow suit. While in favour of accountability and...

This article originally appeared in The Messenger While we can celebrate half a millennium of existence as Anabaptists, it is sobering to think that we are also commemorating what we would now call a church split. We Anabaptists typically look fondly on the courage of the Reformers, but how should our...

Have you ever fell into a rut, a sort of emotional low-point where it was so easy to be miserable, and so hard to enjoy the blessings of life? Perhaps you even know there is good in your life. You can see the sunshine but the hardest thing in the...

This article originally appeared in The Messenger I must have appeared perplexed as I was sitting in my easy chair when my wife Emily walked in the room. “What’s wrong?” she inquired. I replied slowly and honestly, “Someone is wrong on the Internet.” She laughed hysterically. In retrospect, my humorous response...

On April 13, 2016, I had a minor surgery on my ankle. It was a day-surgery, and it had a projected recovery time of 12-weeks. Things seemed to go well, but a couple of weeks later, I developed several very large blood clots in my leg. The blood clots were...

This blog series is inspired by a lecture I had the privilege of attending by Dr. Ronald J. Sider. At the beginning of his lecture, he outlined some basic guidelines for how we should interpret the Bible. Though not every article is directly from this lecture, I am drawing heavily...