Wrestling with the Bible

Joetta Handrich Schlabach is pastor of Faith Mennonite Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. She entered formal ministry after serving with Mennonite Central Committee in Pennsylvania and Central America in the 1980s, editing Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook (1991), and working in program administration in several colleges and universities. She enjoys reading, urban gardening, keeping up with her adult children via Facebook and Skype, and—with her husband, Gerald— taking part in Mennonite-Catholic conversations through Bridgefolk.