February 2, 2015 | Anabaptist World

Executive Board meets, lays groundwork for Kansas City

Seated in a circle around three continuously burning candles signaling their “longing for light,” Mennonite Church USA Executive Board (EB) members met Jan. 29–31 in

Mennonite Church USA

February 2, 2015

98-year-old Amish teacher visits alma mater

Amos Yoder '54 looks at a yearbook held by his daughter, Rebecca Barbo, with Donna Souder and Doug Nyce, of alumni relations. Yoder, 98, visited

Lauren Jefferson

February 2, 2015

Groff named to permanent director role

The board of directors of The Mennonite, Inc., announces that Anna Groff, interim editor, will begin a permanent role of executive director (ED) of The

The Mennonite

February 2, 2015

Believers baptism churches meet

KINGSTON, Jamaica — For the first time, representatives of six churches that practice believers baptism gathered to discuss mutual recognition of baptism and Christian unity.

At the consultation, held Jan. 8-10 in Kingston, participants shared their understandings and practices of baptism and explored how their thinking . . .

Mennonite World Conference

February 2, 2015

Conrad Grebel president promotes the three ‘Cs’

BLUFFTON, Ohio — The three Rs have been viewed as foundations of education since the days of the one-room schoolhouse. But the president of Canada’s

Bluffton University

February 2, 2015

EMU students enlist Nobel laureate in fight against Ebola

HARRISONBURG, Va. — After spending the summer thousands of miles from her native Liberia and watching nervously as Ebola swept through her country, sophomore Winifred

Lauren Jefferson | Eastern Mennonite University

February 2, 2015

What it means to be human

ALEPPO, Syria — This morning I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to the sound of a mortar exploding. I said to myself, “A new day

Ibrahim Nsier

February 2, 2015

Foundation’s record year benefits MB church

HILLSBORO, Kan. — MB Foundation earnings set records in 2014, so the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches’ financial agency is sharing an unprecedented amount with

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

February 2, 2015

Government to pay fees of Conestoga attorneys

The federal government will pay $570,000 in legal fees to attorneys who worked with a Mennonite-owned Pennsylvania cabinet company that challenged a birth control mandate

Mennonite World Review staff

February 2, 2015

Benefits of boredom

While conventional wisdom maintains that idle hands and minds are the devil’s tools, psychological research has found benefits to boredom. According to a 2013 study

Tim Huber

February 2, 2015