The Leavings
Melissa Florer-BixlerWriting looking for a home
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What Jesus says about marriage
Wedding at Cana by He Qi
Accusations of biblical infidelity are a feature of the newest series of rifts in US and global Anabaptism. The affirmation of LGBTQ people’s spiritual gifts and marriages is not a matter of ethics, these groups ar...
A painful, divisive year for Mennonites
I expected 2025 to be a joyful year, celebrating 500 years since the believer’s baptism that birthed Anabaptism. Instead, this was a difficult and painful year for global Anabaptism. Paul Schrag, in his most recent opinion piece for Anabapt...
2025 in the Books
Appropriately for this year, I read 67 books that were not for school or blurbing.
Favorites
We Do Not Part - Kang
The Hounding – Purvis
The God of Small Things – Roy (an older book, but new for me!)
Rich People Problems
Pineappl...
On required grief
Several years ago, I was invited to a college to give a series of lectures. Part of the gig included class talks and student meetings, as well as a dinner with the namesake of the lecture series. The conversations were good and honest. I’d...
Gramsci and church counter/hegemony
Over the past month I’ve seen similar images in the news and across my social media feeds – communities destroyed by ICE’s nightmarish tactics of masked kidnappings. Again and again, images of women being stripped of their children in the s...
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Mennonite pastor, writer (Fire By Night, How to Have An Enemy), deep work on bad theology takes, pollinator gardener, abolitionist
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