An open letter to the OKC City Council regarding the proposed panhandling ordinance
After reading this letter, please take a moment to write your city council representative (a map of the OKC City […]
An initial response to The Mennonite Quarterly Review’s discussion of John Howard Yoder
Updated with some grammar/spelling fixes as well as some additional material (particularly in the conclusion) on 1-13-2015: Today I bought […]
Continuing adventures in Judaism, fitness and evolving religious identity
I have had this blog post percolating for awhile in my head but today seems like a good day to […]
An amicable divorce for Mennonite Church USA?
The last few weeks have been tough in Mennonite Church USA. A lot of long-standing issues have reached a boiling […]
My cultural heremeneutics term paper on The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Dystopian inspiration for resistance or just more “bread and circuses”? – by James M. Branum, March 2014 […]
Religion (Part 2)
This is an update to my previous blog post: Religion (Part1) (which was a response to PeaceArena.org: Getting Religion) What […]
Beware Mennonite Investors — MMA Praxis Mutual Funds invests in evil: Fox News, payday lenders, private prisons, and more
I currently have a very small amount of investments with the MMA Praxis mutual funds, but I don’t think I […]
Part 1- My decision to be both a Quaker and a Mennonite
I wanted to update my regular readers on a change in my personal life. I’m in the process of becoming […]