Forest Hills Mennonite Church

A Relaxing Thought

Is “karma” a relaxing thought? Psychological research has shown that many people have an intuitive sense that the universe is just: everyone, eventually, gets what they deserve. Good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. Jesus, along with the New Testament writers, seems to confound this understanding, offering us a richer and ultimately more hopeful promise of justice that travels outside of karma. 

The Exchange Value

There's an amazing grace to be found we exchange our heavy burdens for Jesus' yoke, which is easy and light.

Trusting That and Trusting In

Audrey Kanagy explores Jesus' teachings on trust from the Gospel of Matthew

Eat this Scroll | Simply in Season

A healthy diet has a fair amount of seasonality to it: using fresh, local ingredients when they're in season. In the same way, encountering Scripture has a seasonal dimension.

Eat this Scroll | The Spice

Cultural appropriation, colonialism, and the rich diversity of Scripture... considered through the lens of chicken tikka masala.

Eat this Scroll | Rightly Divided

Scripture is saturated with the language of food. This week, we explore the hermeneutics of Jesus and Paul through pasta carbonara. 

Unity + Purity

Do "unity" and "purity" exist as opposite ends of a spectrum, where moving toward one inevitably means moving away from the other? And if that's true, is it possible to find Jesus anywhere along that spectrum?

Feed Them

What do we do with an enemy? Paul offers one surprising suggestion in the Book of Romans, and we find a vivid example of this wisdom being put into practice right in the middle of Cold War tensions.