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The Camino: What, Why and How

In late May of 2024, I boarded a flight for Portugal to walk the Camino Portuguese. The Camino, as I will refer to it in this article, is an approximately 180-mile pilgrimage route from Porto, Portugal to Santiago, Spain. This particular route has been growing in popularity in recent years. While doing a pilgrimage might […]

Business and Leadership

Five Questions Every Family in Business Must Answer

The family business is one of the economic staples in the American economy. While the family business category may not represent a majority of the revenue generated in the world of sheds, it likely does represent the majority of companies. My article in the previous edition discussed achieving clarity in the three spheres of family […]

The Truth about Same-Sex Marriage Six Things You Must Know about What’s Really At Stake, by Erwin W. Lutzer book review

Book Reviews

The Truth about Same-Sex Marriage: Six Things You Must Know about What’s Really At Stake, by Erwin W. Lutzer | Review by Rosa Byler

That there should even be a book by this title is a sign of the times we live in! Moral corruption and deviant lifestyles have always existed on the underside of the fabric of society, but ours is probably the first literate culture to couple two such antithetical terms in so casual a manner. The […]

Business and Leadership

The Family Business:

Family-owned and -operated businesses are a major contributor to the American economy. A recent study by SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) noted that there are 28.8 million small businesses in America; and of those, 19% are “family owned.” They define “family owned” as “any business in which two or more family members operate the […]

Life As a Prayer Recapturing the Wind of Head Covering, by Michele Barnes McClendon book review

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Life As a Prayer: Recapturing the Wind of Head Covering, by Michele Barnes McClendon | Review by Rosa Byler

Have you ever wondered how Christians outside of Anabaptism view I Corinthians 11 today? While a head covering for women has been customary throughout many cultures in most of world history, the practice has fallen into disuse during the last hundred years, particularly in Western culture. Churches that observed it thoughtlessly while it was in […]

The Unquenchable Flame Discovering the Heart of the Reformation by Michael Reeves book review

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The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation by Michael Reeves | Review by Rosa Byler

Growing up in a home where church history was important, I felt fairly well-acquainted with the significant figures of the Reformation. Their names were familiar to me and I had a general idea of what had been accomplished by such men as Martin Luther, Jan Hus, William Tyndale, and our own Anabaptist heroes: Conrad Grebel, […]