MennoNerds

MennoNerds is a community of Anabaptist writers and podcasters that practices and discusses following Jesus Christ in a Post-Christendom world

MennoNerds is a community of Anabaptist writers and podcasters that practices and discusses following Jesus Christ in a Post-Christendom world.

Advent Season 2019, Year A – Third Sunday of Advent: The Old Testament Passage – Allowing Joy to Come

by Carole Boshart | Dec 10, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the...

Advent Season 2019, Year A – Second Sunday of Advent: The Psalm Passage – Hope comes to those who pray

by Carole Boshart | Dec 7, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king’s son.May he judge your...

Advent Season 2019, Year A – Second Sunday of Advent: The Gospel Passage – Hope also comes from straight talk and a correction in living

by Carole Boshart | Dec 6, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent,...

Advent Season 2019, Year A – Second Sunday of Advent: The Epistle Passage – Hope comes from peace and harmony

by Carole Boshart | Dec 4, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.”

Advent Season 2019, Year A – Second Sunday of Advent: The Old Testament Passage – Hope comes from unexpected places, and in its own time

by Carole Boshart | Dec 3, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.The...

Advent Season 2019, Year A – First Sunday of Advent: The Psalm Passage – Time to raise up songs of praise

by Carole Boshart | Nov 30, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”Our feet are...

No Turkey for You!

by Donald R. Clymer | Nov 29, 2019 | Klymer Klatsch | 0 |

The title is a reference to a Jerry Seinfeld episode in which the “soup Nazi” shouts to customers...

Advent Season 2019, Year A – First Sunday of Advent: The Gospel Passage – Time to be ready to be raised up!

by Carole Boshart | Nov 29, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but...

Thanksgiving Day: 2019 Year C – Giving Thanks . . . . Again!

by Carole Boshart | Nov 28, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from...

Advent Season 2019, Year A – First Sunday of Advent: The Epistle Passage – Time to rouse up one’s self, and be ready

by Carole Boshart | Nov 27, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

“Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For...

Advent Season 2019, Year A – First Sunday of Advent: The Old Testament Passage – Timings & Ponderings

by Carole Boshart | Nov 26, 2019 | Pondering From the Pacific | 0 |

Titles and timings get tricky around this time of year. As I said very recently (just in the last...

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

by Donald R. Clymer | Sep 23, 2019 | Klymer Klatsch | 0 |

Thomann Klymer (also Clymer, Klemmer, Clemmer) was born in 1554 in Montbéliard, France, 37 years after the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, and 29 years after the Anabaptist beginnings in 1525. At some point he became a...

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