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Anabaptist reparations after 500 years: Mennonites and the Doctrine of Discovery
Full text linkAnabaptists must move beyond asking who physically forced Indigenous tribes off the land, or who owned enslaved people. Such a narrow focus is used to aid white Anabaptists in skirting historical complicity. The real challenge today is to perceive the comprehensive project that was the Doctrine of Discovery and how Anabaptists benefited and advantaged themselves through their missional participation in a diseased imagination
Anabaptism in Ethiopia: Six markers of the Meserete Kristos Church
Full text linkIn visiting the Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia, European and North American Mennonites might be surprised at what they see, given the church’s hybrid character and high level of ecumenicity. And yet, this church is deeply rooted in Anabaptist values and has evolved in response to various religious, economic, and political factors. The church continually demonstrates this commitment by focusing on six markers, described in this article
Embodied faith: Incarnation and wholeness
Full text linkWe are all embodied beings, both sacred and fragile. Our bodies are integral to the functioning of our minds and the wellbeing of our spirit, and each of us is connected in a rich web to the rest of the created world and one another. In addition to this, we worship an embodied God. The incarnation of God in Jesus is at the center of Christian faith, but modern Protestant churches often treat the body as suspect and a place of sin. The people who lived in the time of Jesus inhabited a different cultural landscape where the body and soul were reflections of one another and intimately connected
Creator of every body: A prayer
Full text linkThis prayer was originally published on the Mennonite Church USA’s webpage Welcoming EveryBODY, https://www.mennoniteusa.org/ministry/peacebuilding/learnprayjoin/welcoming-everybody/. See this webpage for more resources on accessibility and disability inclusion
Rules for the Direction of the Artificial Mind
Full text linkA 4500-word short story based on Descartes\u27s Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Genre: Science Fiction, Romance.
Note: story discusses an AI but there was no AI used in any way to conceive, write, or edit this story. 
En la Compañía de los Santos
Full text linkSet in Spain at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, this story follows an aristocrat\u27s restless boy who meets a peculiar playwright with revolutionary ideas. The bewilderment of the boy encapsulates the people of Galicia, caught in the crosshairs between the forces of France and Spain, which translates to modern people who yearn for an unobtainable difference while trapped by throes of political forces
Higher Education and Higher Inequality: Case Study
Full text linkBackground: This case study focuses on gender inequality in a higher education setting. It involves both human resources and leadership management situations. By participating in this study, students will be able to do the following: critically examine a gender inequality case study; recommend a solution or outcome regarding a case of gender inequality in a global setting; and justify and defend their decision-making skills in uncertain and complex ethical situations and gender inequality. This case study is best suited for undergraduate students in a human resource, ethical leadership, or social change theory course. In addition, this case study is also appropriate for business professionals in the human resource field. Objectives and Learning Outcomes: Learning outcomes include: 1) Critically examine a gender inequality case study; 2) Recommend a solution or outcome regarding a case of gender inequality in a global setting; 3) Justify and defend their decision-making skills in uncertain and complex ethical situations and gender inequality; 4) Research examples of gender inequality in the workplace. Some information has deliberately been excluded from the case study to promote further research and discussion to give students an opportunity to give an end to the story. Teaching Notes: Teaching notes are available with this case study
Anabaptism and Jews: Collective memory and failure
Full text linkIt is important to find ways to celebrate the vision, persistence, and remarkable events that led to the faith and church experience we call Anabaptism, while acknowledging the ambiguities of that history. One such complication of Anabaptist history is the relationship with Jews. There is reason to commemorate and possibly even celebrate our shared fate as minorities in a Europe dominated by Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed Christians. Certainly, there is also abundant reason to tell and retell the stories of shame and failure in our relationship with Jews, to offer penitence and seek reconciliation
Unlearning ableism in worship
Full text linkIn this article I share some of the ways I am being shaped by and with disabled Christians as part of a multi-year project to create a new worship resource. As I chart our process in creating this prayer book, I offer a possible roadmap for those seeking to engage in anti-ableist collaboration and partnership within faith communities