June 2, 2014 | Anabaptist World

Pastor nudged church to act on civil rights

Vincent Harding, a civil rights activist and former Mennonite pastor who wrote Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Beyond Vietnam” antiwar speech, died May 19 in Philadelphia. He was 82.

Harding served as co-pastor at Woodlawn Mennonite Church in Chicago from 1958 to 1961 before moving south to work . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

June 2, 2014

In bombing, MCC Nigeria sees signs of peace

When Mugu Zakka Bako arrived at the scene of twin bomb blasts May 20 at a busy market in Jos, Nigeria, he saw more than the destruction, billowing smoke, injured people and charred remains.

Bako saw Muslims and Christians working shoulder to shoulder, helping to rescue people from the debris.

Linda Espenshade | Mennonite Central Committee

June 2, 2014

Scripture makes indelible mark

HESSTON, Kan. — Nathanael Ressler has the story of God’s people tattooed on his left arm.

It’s the timeline of the Heilsgeschichte, or “salvation history,” from Hesston College’s Biblical Literature course.

“The Heilsgeschichte and this timeline represent a story that we are a part of,” said Ressler, who graduated from Hesston . . .

Alex Leff | Hesston College

June 2, 2014

Parent-child relations

Our diagnosis: Parent-child relations. At last. After a fast-moving, slow-motion spiral that had led to my daughter’s hospitalization for emotional and behavioral health, we at

Horace McMillon

June 2, 2014