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When you can't pray

by Dan Schrock

Some months ago, I was eating sandwiches with a friend who doesn’t normally pay attention to the news. Yet when I casually referred in our conversation to “the dark night,” he brightened. “Oh yes,” he interrupted, “Mother Teresa had that, didn’t she?” ...

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• When you can't pray
• WEB EXCLUSIVE: Transforming the wounds of war
• Be silent—to hear
• Turn up the quiet
• Supportive communities

News stories, digests and Meno Acontecer

• Women learn to set boundaries in caring
• Teachers consider the power of electronic culture
• Group to Iran encounters no hostility
• Mission agencies discuss power, empire
• OurFaith Digest suspends issue
• Janet Breneman ordained in Lancaster, Pa.
• MMA expands partnership with Mennonite credit union
• Church promotes ‘Less Oil for Lent’ campaign
• U.S. and Canadian Mennonites to meet
• Church leader Samuel Hernandez dies at 66
• Settlers fire on Palestinian shepherds
• Intergenerational learning

Columns

• Sacrifice and suffering
• It’s not easier with age
• WEB EXCLUSIVE VERSION: Reflections on baptism
• Church as family: worrying and celebrating

Readers Say

• The liberty in baptism is not individualism
• Anabaptist vision of a meaningful faith covenant.
• Don’t water down martyr-tested tradition
• How can an infant answer questions?
• Replacing one legalism with another
• A pastor questions the Bible he loves
• A pastor questions the Bible he loves II

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