Mennonite Church USA has committed itself to being “missional.” What does that mean? And what is the responsibility of leadership in leading the church into being missional? …
Mennonite Church USA has committed itself to being “missional.” What does that mean? And what is the responsibility of leadership in leading the church into being missional? …
Mediaculture first appeared in the Feb. 17, 1998, issue of a new magazine called The Mennonite. In that column I outlined the purposes of the column and wrote, “We swim in an ocean of media and culture without thinking about it or analyzing how it might affect us” …
The economy is in recession. Our denomination is shrinking in size; membership is aging. This is the milieu in which Mennonite Church USA looks for a new executive director—the top staff position in the church …
The economic crash of 2008 was essentially a spiritual problem of unregulated greed and uncontrolled selfishness—the dark side of free market enterprise …
If you are looking for Ernesto Unruh, you just may find him on his hands and knees with other members of the congregation, painting the floor of the church in Yalve Sanga, the Chaco, Paraguay. If you have the honor of speaking with him, which you can do at Mennonite World Conference 2009, you will find he will humbly speak of working together with others, of cooperation and harmony …
Since the first exploration in 1921, Paraguay has become a kind of city of refuge for Mennonites. In 2008, the entire multiethnic Mennonite population, including the indigenous and Paraguayan Latinos, was around 60,000 …
