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Egg Sandwich Ministry

I’ve spent the past year focusing on my husband’s recovery from a bad fall, our many offspring, and my own mental health. Yesterday I was happily poking around on the porch, re-potting and watering geraniums, when I thought it might be time to branch out more. Maybe I should once again ask God to bring…
The Stars and Stripes and the Tension Between

The party had been going for two full days, and my hosts said we had another day. Sitting in a jungle village, surrounded by an inscrutable language, I felt lost. But it wasn’t just the foreign-to-me tongue that left me bewildered: Behind the loud music, half-drunken laughter, gambling, and endless food, I could hear loud,…
The Way of the Cross – Excerpts from Pilgram Marpeck’s Writings

Today, we would like to share excerpts from an early Anabaptist tract by Pilgram Marpeck on “”Defencelessness and Fidelity to Christ”. It was originally published as Die Aufdeckung der Babylonischen Hurn and was translated by Peter Hoover and edited by Edsel Burdge. You can download it for free from Scroll Publishing here. To learn more…
Kingdom Women Podcast: Relationships with Family – Parents and Siblings

Sometimes, relationships are really hard! Today, we’re talking about relationships with our families of origin (parents and siblings) and how they can sometimes be one of the most challenging things we face. What does honor mean? How do we manage boundaries in a God-honoring way? We share our stories and talk through the questions we…
Write for the Kingdom Outpost: Updates, Themes, and Topics!

The Kingdom Outpost was started as a hub bringing together and building up communities, “outposts” of Jesus’s Kingdom, through podcasts, videos, articles, blogs, emails, social media and other resources. What we’re hoping to do build a platform around a Christ-centered “Kingdom vision” – discipleship, nonviolence or radical love, nonconformity, and turning the world “upside-down”. What…
Fasting? A Journey

“Prayer is for normal Christians. Fasting is for super-spiritual Christians.” I don’t think anyone ever told me this directly, but it’s the impression I got, growing up in the general modern Mennonite/white evangelical culture. Preachers sometimes informed us of the long fasts they did. “The hunger pains go away by about day three,” they’d say…