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Celeste Kennel-Shank, author of What You Sow Is a Bare Seed: A Countercultural Christian Community During Five Decades of Change, is an ordained Mennonite minister living in Chicago.

Posts By This Author

Green Hair, Gray Hair

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 03-01-2006

What do you get when you mix punk rockers with senior citizens?

IRS vs. Pulpit

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 02-01-2006

The nonprofit status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, is being challenged by the Internal Revenue Service because of a sermon in which parishioners were asked to imagine a

13 Children

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 01-01-2006

...one moment at a time.

Hurricane Stan Ignites Churches

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 01-01-2006

When Hurricane Stan hit the Gulf of Mexico last October, it deluged Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras before losing its power.

Many Cultures, One Spirit

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 12-01-2005

Southside Presbyterian Church, Tucson.

Principled Immigration Reform

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 12-01-2005
Principled Immigration Reform

A Place of Their Own

A Nicaraguan church helps its community build for the future.

Java Justice

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 04-01-2004
The difference that fair trade makes.

Goshen College: Teaching Peace

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 05-01-2003
Integrating justice in all fields of study.

School House Lock

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 01-01-2000
A school system cannot hope to solve school violence simply by increasing security.

A Youthful Voice for Justice

by Celeste Kennel-Shank 05-01-1999
A 15-year-old activist fights against child abuse.