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Paraguay, utopia and life lived one-handed

phillegitimate wrote 1 day ago: Life in Paraguay is essentially life lived one-handed. The conductors on the buses as well as most o … more →

Tags: Written in/about Paraguay, Travel, Jesuits

3 Things to Know About the Amish (Lancaster County)

themalvernsocialclub wrote 2 days ago: Amish garb hanging on a backyard clothesline 7.3.09 I’ve lived a half hour from Lancaster Coun … more →

Tags: Things to do, Amish, Chester County, Lancaster County, anabaptists, Amish Country, cows, Religion, Tours

Mennonites protest church exclusion of gays

TGO wrote 3 days ago: It sure is good to be an atheist. I don’t need to deal with all of the BS associated with reli … more →

Tags: Religion, God, Bible, Christian, Ohio, Columbus, Iowa

Switz-aly, Daze 1 und 2 (The Budding Terrorista)

Mark Nielsen wrote 4 days ago: WHEW! Finally found a hotel with computer access (but a slightly odd German keyboard). At least for … more →

Tags: Arts & Culture, Christianity, Computing/Internet, Economics, Food, God, International Affairs, Jesus God, Personal & Family

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

jdapier wrote 1 week ago: Nomi Nickel, the lead character in Miriam Toews’s book, A Complicated Kindness, is a 16-year-o … more →

Tags: Loft Book Reviews, The Loft, Young Adult books, a complicated kindness, Miriam Toews

SLEAZY SARKOZY TELLS PEOPLE HOW THEY SHOULD DRESS - WITH HIS EMPHASIS ON ONE GROUP HE DISPLAYS CLEAR ANTI-MUSLIM PREJUDICE

chuckman2 wrote 1 week ago: JOHN CHUCKMAN   POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL What right does the p … more →

Tags: Sarkozy, France, Anti-Muslim prejudice, Nuns, GOVERNMENT TELLING PEOPLE HOW TO DRESS, INTELLECTUAL SLEAZE

Amish, Old Order, Hutterite, Quaker, etc. Plain Clothes

laurastempmorlok wrote 1 week ago: I’ve been talking so much about fashion in the Middle East I thought I would come back to the … more →

Tags: modesty, Fashion History, plain clothes

Tongues and Tribes: Musical Change in a Mennonite Congregation3 comments

Dean wrote 3 weeks ago: Abstract: When a local Mennonite congregation changes its Sunday morning worship music to include A … more →

Tags: essays, Reba Place Church, Church Music

Filadelfia: a multi-lingual backwater1 comment

phillegitimate wrote 3 weeks ago: El Chaco, the vast flatland that covers the northern half of Paraguay and sprawls over into Bolivia, … more →

Tags: Written in/about Paraguay, Travel, Filadelfia

Day #1 of 100 Days in my 'Hood2 comments

bellybuttonproject wrote 3 weeks ago: The winner is…. Yeah, I know you’ve already figured it out – 20% of you voted for … more →

Tags: 100 days in my 'hood, house, bridgewater, crazy hair, chicken plants, Lightning, Softball

Turning Points: 10/ The New Piety: The Conversion of the Wesleys (1738)

halakti wrote 4 weeks ago: 223: “In several important ways the Wesleys were the most effective proponents of the Reforma … more →

Tags: book, Chapter Summary, Mark A. Noll, Turning Points, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, Methodists, Thirty Years War, George Whitefield

in search of a church5 comments

donmarkphoto wrote 1 month ago: It started with a cookbook. Doris Longacre wrote Cooking More-with-Less in 1976 in response to North … more →

Tags: Books, Religion, blogs, church, anabaptist

I wear jeans to church9 comments

phillygrrl wrote 1 month ago: So I came across Twitter pal Bear Cherian’s blog this week. Through his blog, I discovered a … more →

Tags: Bear Cherian, church attire, dressy jeans, Jeans, Siby Varghese Band, twitter, women veilings

Shadow Boxing and the Abbotsford Buzz1 comment

jules09 wrote 1 month ago: Abbotsford, the fifth largest city in BC, has been deemed the best place to work, live and play (by … more →

Tags: polyblogs in a jar, Abbotsford, B.C., Drug Crimes, drugs, election, gangs, john van dongen, Marijuana

Agreeing and Disagreeing in Love

Dean wrote 1 month ago: Lenten sermon series on conflict resolution in the church. Based on the Mennonite Church USA docume … more →

Tags: Sermons, Conflict Resolution, Congregations

Fragile Splendor: Empire in Anabaptist Public Theology

Dean wrote 1 month ago: In Book IV of Augustine’s City of God he refers to worldly empires as exhibiting the “fragile splend … more →

Tags: essays, Anabaptist Theology, Empire, Public theology

Church, Peace, & the Courage to Break With the Crowd

Mark Nielsen wrote 1 month ago: “The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and th … more →

Tags: American History, Bible, Catholics, Christianity, Documentary, Education, Emergent, God, International Affairs

Rosaries & Nurseries: Going to Mass in Wisconsin

Mark Nielsen wrote 2 months ago: I’m a post-Vatican II Roman Catholic, who became Protestantized in college and casually wander … more →

Tags: American History, Catholics, Education, Emergent, God, Graham Nielsen, Jesus God, Men's spirituality, Parenting

Road Tripping with Mennonites :: Jerk, California3 comments

Carrie Rollwagen wrote 2 months ago: click here to jump to this week’s chapter BOOK REVIEW :: by Carrie Rollwagen Within the first two (s … more →

Tags: News, Reviews, Contests, Some New Trend, Carrie Rollwagen, jerk california, Jonathan Friesen, Tourette's, James Dobson


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