Learning fluency step by step
Recovering a lost language or learning to speak a language doesn’t happen overnight. But a desire to learn will unbolt the door—swinging it wide open—and fill our lungs with sparkling morning air. We can learn to talk about faith in ways that are honest. We can recover winsome beauty that was lost. We can salt…
Changing the language of worship a test of love
Faith Mennonite Church, Leamington, Ont., is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but its memories are tinged with sorrow as the new congregation grew out of a painful church split. In the late 1950s, Leamington United Mennonite Church, like many other Mennonite congregations, was experiencing deep division about whether the language of worship should continue…
Top Secret
I can’t tell you much about the experience. I signed a paper swearing me to secrecy, and allowing them to use anything I said. Maybe it’s one of the most top secret organizations in Harrisonburg? It’s called “Rosetta Stone.” If you haven’t heard of the company, they create computer-based language learning programs that they sell…
