Why I Want to Keep the Biblical Feasts
This spring, on a rather grumpy day at the end of a busy week, my children and I picked newly grown garden tea and gave it to a friend.
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Anabaptist world articles
I’ve Learned to Be Swifter to Speak
This article was first published in my column in Anabaptist World. *** Let everyone be swift to hear and slow to speak, James tells us. But my inclination when a difficult conversation arises is not to speak at all. I’ve had to learn to be swifter, not slower, to speak. Too often I’ve left unsaid words
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God of Broken and Little Things
The following prayer was first published in Anabaptist World. Dear FATHER, IN WHOM I try to believe, my heart feels muddled and squished, like a stress ball in a clammy hand. My mind is clouded by vague worries and muddied emotions. It feels presumptuous to ask you, the Creator of sparrows and stars, into the small
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Remnants of a Life
This post was first published in Anabaptist World. We recently bought a neglected house in town to use as a rental—a property foreclosed on and sold cheap after its owner died. So now we are left with the task of sorting through piles of “junk” once valued by someone. I sort through a box of
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Christmas Babies and Double-Wrapped Gifts
Merry Christmas from our little family to you! And yes, that is a second baby in our family photo, a baby that may be a surprise to you if you follow me only on my blog and are not an in-person acquaintance. That’s Theodore Jonas Kinsinger, the reason for my long silence here. He was
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