At the window, perhaps sitting, perhaps standing…
Hand upraised (most of the time), likely waving…
Mouth open briefly, murmuring… Read it all
A Father’s Blessing
Oft repeated (sometime the final one, perhaps)
Children
Summer Bible School
Hopewell Mennonite Church
Attention: Hubbard and Woodburn, Oregon!
It’s almost time for Summer Bible School (aka, Vacation Bible School)!
An Historic Sight at Hopewell
When four declare they'll become two
In all my decades at Hopewell Mennonite Church, I have never seen two member wedding announcements up together.
Until recently.
Vince and Holly are Mr. & Mrs. Nisly now. Read it all
Choice: Women’s Bodies
What are the limits to the "choice" logic of Roe v Wade?
On this day, millions without natural affection (and millions of others) celebrate: enough Supreme Court “justices” figured out a woman can do what she wants with her body.
As a result of Roe v Wade, a girl or a woman in the United States may legally…
- Sell one of her kidneys for research, transplant, or knick-knack.
- Accept pay in exchange for welcoming a man into her body.
- Destroy an embryo (or kill a fetus or slice up a baby) within her.
It’s her body, after all. Read it all
How Many Music Makers Can a House Hold?
I don't know about the typical household, but ours has several.
Night before last, as I looked for a certain old photo in one of our albums, I noticed this one:
“Hmmm… Big sister LaVay does this…”
Well, one thing has led to another for our youngest son Andy.
He composed the music for his sister Chayli’s poem.
I don’t know how he does it… Read it all
At the Roth Christmas Meal
A bunch of Roth tribespeople. And a honorary Roth. And a...
For our main Christmas Day meal here — my parents, my sister and husband, my niece and husband, my aunt, and my first brother-in-law (whom I hereby designate an honorary Roth).
And nine of my little flock.
And one candidate. 
But seven missing. 🙁 Read it all
Yazidis and Christians — Genocide in Progress?
What Christian Aid Ministries is doing to help a "little" bit.
Joel C. Rosenberg reports:
“Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide.”
That is the first line of my most recent novel, The Auschwitz Escape. But while the book was fiction, I’m afraid that line is proving as relevant as today’s headlines.
We are watching genocidal conditions emerging in the epicenter.
This is as dark as any time I have ever seen in the modern Middle East.
Even the media and the politicians are finally using the term genocide to describe what is going on in Iraq. Read it all