Articles for tag: Moberly Missouri

The Envelopes, Please

By Daniel Schantz   I have enjoyed a lifelong romance with envelopes. When I was just a boy, my preacher-father supplied me with several boxes of leftover offering envelopes to play with. I have been in love with envelopes ever since. About the size of an index card, these little envelopes gave me much pleasure. We lived in Springfield, Ohio, at the time, the city where I was born. My cousins lived there, too, and on Saturdays we held a secret club meeting in a dusty corncrib, organized by my oldest cousin, Carol. She appointed herself president of the club, but the purpose of the

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The Wisdom in Meat Loaf

Daniel Schantz looks back with humor on the church potluck dinners of his childhood and the unforgettable lessons they taught him about patience, self-control, acceptance, good manners, and life.

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Sitting Pretty

Daniel Schantz remembers the wooden church pews of his childhood—their unforgiving stability, lessons in discipline, and endless possibilities for imagination—in this humorous reflection on church life.

February 11, 2012

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His Church & Her Church

Daniel Schantz humorously compares the very different ways he and his wife experience church, from fellowship and worship to Communion, sermons, and the people sitting around them.

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The T-shirt Aristocracy

Daniel Schantz considers the debate over church attire, challenging assumptions about casual dress and arguing that Christians should be free to dress up or dress down without being labeled.

Leading Through Change

Change Is

Tom Ellsworth urges patient, listening-first leadership when guiding change in smaller churches. Mark A. Taylor introduces a book excerpt on helping town and country congregations respond faithfully to demographic shifts and unchosen change.

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