Have you ever walked past someone you do not know—someone older or younger than you, someone richer or poorer than you, someone cooler or squarer than you—and you try to make eye contact, but it doesn’t happen? …

These last few months I’ve been sitting quietly with this question: Do I fit in the Mennonite church? Is there a place for me here? Before you assume this article ends with a resolution of my doubt, let me reassure you that it does not. I never imagined I’d arrive to this place, and I invite you into my struggle …

As part of the Boomer generation, I’m rounding a corner of life that many of us have been avoiding. We’re hitting the last phase of our careers and heading into whatever follows …

For anyone who laments the lack of religious content on television, look no further than Catholicism, a 10-episode documentary on PBS …

The decision at Pittsburgh 2011 to include the antiracism program within the intercultural transformation program has the potential to ignore the unique and particularly devastating effects of racism. While this may be a good move organizationally, I question whether it is a good move conceptually and strategically …

Wouldn’t it be great if your congregation suddenly had an influx of mature believers who were generous givers, who humbly served as volunteers in much-needed church roles and whose convictions were aligned with your church’s deepest beliefs and practices? Perhaps it’s difficult to even dream of such an influx …

The official beginning date for Mennonite Church USA was Feb. 1, 2002, the day the new fiscal year began for most agencies. But most of us think of the denomination’s “birthday” as that moment in the summer of 2001 when delegates at the Nashville, Tenn., assembly voted to form our national church and Mennonite Church Canada …

In early August 1948, a remarkable event in the history of Anabaptist-Mennonite churches occurred. For seven days—first at Goshen, Ind., and then at North Newton, Kan.—Mennonites from countries that had fought each other in World War II met face-to-face to discuss their shared future …