Category Featured Highlights

My top 5 books read in 2010

4 January 2011 Book Review, Featured Highlights, Top Stories  One comment

I always enjoy checking over people's favorite books lists for the year, and wanted to list my own. Not that anyone's waiting for it or truly interested, but it's a fun exercise either way.

In 2010, I read some excellent works, most of which were

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Remember the Incarnation: the making of

19 December 2010 Design, Featured Highlights  4 comments

I wanted to create a Christmas card this year. Homemade. Handmade. Something special and personal. I remembered our letterpress (a Showcard Machine, model 7-11; it'll handle 7x11" print work), and that I still had a couple 2x3" linoleum blocks.

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DVD review: What’s In the Bible? 4

3 November 2010 Book Review, Featured Highlights  3 comments

This is the first What's In the Bible? DVD my family has watched, and it will not be the last.

Oh, wait. Am I supposed to give my conclusion at the beginning of the review?

Ah well.

If you're not familiar with the What's In the Bible

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Blog a Qur’an Day: Surah 25:60-66

11 September 2010 Featured Highlights, Islam  3 comments

Muhsin Khan
And when it is said to them: "Prostrate to the Most Beneficent (Allah)! They say: "And what is the Most Beneficent? Shall we fall down in prostration to that which you (O Muhammad SAW) command us?" And it increases in

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Walking through The Apocalypse, i.1-3

21 June 2010 Featured Highlights, Greek Translation  3 comments

Walking through The Apocalypse, translating from the Greek as a continuing student of the language and the Scriptures, and bringing up points I find interesting and significant along the way.

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His Story of Shalom…An Introduction

6 April 2010 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence, Old Testament  No comments

I have been participating in the women's Bible studies that our church has been offering over the past couple of years. I have really enjoyed those studies and God has always used

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Rejecting alternatives, and a book to give away

24 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence  4 comments

The advocate of war cannot say there is no other recourse before weighing nonviolent alternatives.
That's from chapter 7 of John Howard Yoder's The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking, edited by Glen Stassen, Mark Thiessen

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This whole Beck affair

13 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Theology  2 comments

If you are not sure what's going on with this uproar over Glenn Beck, that's alright. He likes to cause a ruckus. But this one is fairly problematic. For some quick catch up, check out this intro by Eugene Cho, then Glenn Beck's response, and then

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Because words matter

12 March 2010 Anabaptist, Featured Highlights, Theology  3 comments

Words matter. What we say, what we recite, what we repeat. All of it matters. And the meaning behind the words we say matter just the same.

For this reason a Christian must never deny Jesus, especially to save their own life. Many have said they

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Gene Stoltzfus: “block the guns”

12 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence  No comments

Founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, Gene Stoltzfus, took the next journey in life on Wednesday, and gets to hear those glorious words, "Well done."

I can't say any words of quality here. I will simply point you to some articles and

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The blood of martyrs is seed, but…

10 March 2010 Book Review, Featured Highlights, Islam, Nonviolence  No comments

I started reading Light Force: A Stirring Account of the Church Caught in the Middle East Crossfire, by Brother Andrew and Al Janssen. I read Secret Believers earlier last year, adored that wonderful text, and wanted to continue my engrossing

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Jesus, please put down your whip.

8 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence  3 comments

In the first day of the class on Islam, I brought up the idea that Christianity is nonviolent. I was challenged with the story of Jesus cleansing the temple. Once again, this story was lofted to legendary heights, unknown even to the gospel writers,

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Isa is not God’s son

6 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Islam  2 comments

But she pointed to him . They said: How should we speak to one who was a child in the cradle?

He said: Surely I am a servant of Allah; He has given me the Book and made me a prophet;

And He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and He has

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Isa from the Qur’an

1 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Islam  One comment

First in a series of quotations from the Qur'an as I prep each week for the Sunday morning Islam classes.

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Christians killing Muslims in Nigeria, violence begetting violence

31 December 2009 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence  11 comments

"Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab wouldn't have to go to an al Qaeda camp in Yemen to learn how to hate. He had examples closer to home. Christians and Muslims have been killing each other in Nigeria for much of his lifetime."

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Homeschool and History with Trial and Triumph: Polycarp

26 December 2009 Featured Highlights, Schleitheim Academy  One comment

Part one in the Homeschool and History with Trial and Triumph series. This one is on the first chapter and story, Polycarp.

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