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Jonah’s journey to Nineveh, and mine
A call to serve as part of my Christian faith has nagged at me since childhood. I grew up Mennonite in southern Manitoba, and the obligation to serve was welded into our conscience from an early age. Having been an Anglican for almost 30 years now, I think of myself as a “Manglican.”