A small stop along our Lenten journey to celebrate International Women’s Day — with a poem, first published in Sophia in 1999, slightly revised here. Continue reading
A Certain Woman: for IWD
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Category Archives: Women's lives
The many, and the one
Mennonite Heritage Tour (Last of 8).
“Pilate” (Stn. 1) by Jerzy Duda Gracz
In a room above the Black Madonna shrine at Jasna Gora, Czestochawa (Poland), I was startled by probably the homeliest Jesus I have ever seen. He appears there in a series of 18 remarkable Stations of the Cross paintings by Jerzy Duda Gracz. Here the incarnation of God is truly of “no form or comeliness…no beauty that we should desire him” (Isaiah 53:2). Continue reading
Finding our names
The former Mennonite church at Thiensdorf (Jezioro), now used for storage.
Mennonite Heritage Tour: encounters with women (part 7 of 8).
As my reflections on our Mennonite Heritage Tour wind their way into Poland and soon to an end, I have to confess in advance that this post is a bit of a stretch as far as the “encounters with women” theme is concerned. Poland — or “Prussia” as we also think of it in Mennonite history – made its connections to me through place(s) rather than people. Continue reading
Borrowing Bones 