Late in the morning of June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a young Serbian nationalist standing in a crowd in Sarajevo, Bosnia, drew a pistol and fired two shots into a passing motorcade, killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophia …
During times of conflict and change, many of us turn naturally to leaders for support and direction. And particularly if we are concerned about the direction things are moving, we want to know who is in charge and how those leaders are being accountable to their constituents …
It’s time for us to invest at least as much energy in making disciples next door as we do around the world …
Since October 2013, more than 52,000 Central American children have been taken into custody as they crossed the border into the United States. So far, public outcry has been mixed …
If you’re hot-blooded like I am, it’s probably hard to avoid when you turn on the TV or surf the Internet. You know you’re too good for it and you know it’s not good for you, but you also know that it’s always there waiting for you, enticing you into its embrace of false satisfaction …
One question I always hear people pondering is, Why do we only come together when someone dies?
In less than a month, from July 17 to Aug. 11, in separate incidents—in Staten Island, N.Y., Beavercreek, Ohio, Ferguson, Mo., and Los Angeles—four unarmed African-American men were killed by police …
There is a lot of talk about the “catastrophe” in Mennonite Church USA brought on by Mountain States Mennonite Conference licensing Theda Good for ministry …
Most of you, though not all, reading this are doing so by holding a magazine made of paper. That print medium is under durress in a culture obsessed with immediate profits rather than long-term health …
A crucial part of Mennonite Central Committee’s response to last November’s Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines includes training pastors to build networks for responding to future disasters and to improve their skills in helping people heal from trauma and resolve conflicts …
