I'm so grateful for your intellectual honesty and rigor, Melissa. I came to the Mennonite world on a journey that began in childhood with fundamentalist teachers and I embraced Yoder's writings as light, ignorant of the shadows and harm. I am not a theologian or pastor or writer, so I receive with gratitude the work you do for yourself that you then share with folks like me. Thank you.
This is wonderfully written, insightful, powerful, nuanced and beauitfully incisive on the complexities of how we relate to our worlds. I encounter this dilemma in the progressive spiritual traditions in which I center myself, and wrestle with it daily as a person of privelege and pastoral position. Thank you so very much.
I love this piece because it has the same complexity I feel
Thank you
I think about this a lot and don’t have answers but it’s helpful to read your thoughts.
Grateful for your picture of patience with yourself in your redemption story, and for your pastoral care in taking theological references seriously.
I'm so grateful for your intellectual honesty and rigor, Melissa. I came to the Mennonite world on a journey that began in childhood with fundamentalist teachers and I embraced Yoder's writings as light, ignorant of the shadows and harm. I am not a theologian or pastor or writer, so I receive with gratitude the work you do for yourself that you then share with folks like me. Thank you.
This is wonderfully written, insightful, powerful, nuanced and beauitfully incisive on the complexities of how we relate to our worlds. I encounter this dilemma in the progressive spiritual traditions in which I center myself, and wrestle with it daily as a person of privelege and pastoral position. Thank you so very much.