January 12, 2015 | Anabaptist World

Married couple spends spare time saving lives

EMU alumni Katie (Lehman) and Jackson Maust are seasoned members among the 160 volunteers with the Harrisonburg Rescue Squad. From its headquarters on Reservoir Street,

Lauren Jefferson

January 12, 2015

The danger of a Christian label

We all use labels to some degree. Like it or not, we live in a culture that uses labels to help us identify things. Sometimes

Benjamin L. Corey

January 12, 2015

Planting opportunity, rebuilding lives

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Breezes flutter the sheer fabric hanging in the doorway of Gladys Joseph’s new home in Cabaret, 24 miles outside Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. There’s room in the yard for her children to play. And, for the first time since she was sent to Haiti’s capital city as a child, she’s able to have a garden — corn, beans, manioc and okra.

Five years after a devastating earthquake tore across Port-au-Prince . . .

Marla Pierson Lester | Mennonite Central Committee

January 12, 2015

Same-sex wedding a first for MC Canada

A Saskatoon, Sask., couple became the first same-sex couple to be married in a Mennonite Church Canada congregation on Dec. 31.

Craig Friesen and Matt Wiens held a ceremony with family, friends and their church community at Osler (Sask.) Mennonite Church, where Friesen grew up and is a member.

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

January 12, 2015

Rare opportunity for transformative experience

Amid growing anticipation about the Mennonite World Conference assembly July 21-26 in Harrisburg, Pa., a number of questions keep surfacing within North American churches. MWC

Mennonite World Conference

January 12, 2015