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On silence

Eric Massanari serves as the executive conference minister for the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA. He is also a trained spiritual director and is currently serving as... read more →
  • May 1, 2023
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Praying with beads: a spiritual practice

Shirley Yoder Brubaker, a retired pastor and educator, is a member of Park View Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Kenton, reside at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community.... read more →
  • March 15, 2023
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Is it time for a retreat?

Marlene Kropf is a spiritual director and retreat leader. She is retired from denominational ministry and from teaching at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. She lives in Port... read more →
  • February 22, 2023
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Knowing and unknowing

Sherill Hostetter is a retired ordained minister, HR/member care director, spiritual director, coach and consultant. After serving in Nigeria, Swaziland and Pennsylvania, she now resides in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and is... read more →
  • August 23, 2022
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Stitch by stitch: Knitting as a spiritual practice

Gwen Gustafson-Zook is an ordained pastor in MC USA and is currently completing a year-long chaplaincy residency at Portland Providence Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Thanks to Zoom, she is... read more →
  • June 15, 2022
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Ferocious love

Mary Lou Weaver Houser, as an artist and spiritual director, claims gardening as a metaphor for how she intends to nurture community on many levels, whether with personal/family relationships, neighborhood... read more →
  • March 22, 2022
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Raids on the inarticulate: writing poetry as an act of faith

Eric Massanari is a chaplain at Kidron Bethel Village in North Newton, Kansas and a trained spiritual director.  He is a member of the Mennonite Spiritual Directors Network steering committee... read more →
  • February 2, 2022
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A spiritual discipline?

Mag Richer Smith has been a Mennonite pastor for 42 years, serving churches in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. Now she finds that her time with her grandchildren is the most... read more →
  • January 12, 2022
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In the place just right

Leslie James is a retired medical librarian and worship planner. She is also co-author, with Karmen Krahn, of “Proclamation by Design: The visual arts in worship” (Faith and Life Resources,... read more →
  • December 22, 2021
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Gathering silence (to meet with Charles)

Ruben Chupp retired from full-time pastoral ministry after 28 years and now serves as an on-call chaplain at Goshen (Indiana) Health.  He offers spiritual direction and works at two local... read more →
  • November 17, 2021
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Looking for a Spiritual Director?

Sally Weaver Glick is from Goshen, Indiana, where she is a spiritual director and a congregational doula at Open Table Mennonite Fellowship. She is database administrator for Mennonite Spiritual Directors... read more →
  • September 3, 2021
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Directed silence

June Mears Driedger is co-director of The Hermitage (www.hermitagecommunity.org), a contemplative retreat center, offering spiritual direction and retreats in Three Rivers, Michigan. She is a member of the Mennonite Spiritual... read more →
  • June 10, 2021
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Give Me a Word

Jane Roeschley is currently continuing to settle into early retirement, which is overlapping with COVID-19. She sees spiritual directees via Zoom, is grateful to be part of spiritual gatherings and... read more →
  • May 4, 2021
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