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MCC flooding response unites former enemies

When Cornelius and Shauna Frantz of Pittsburgh came to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2013, they expected to work with people who had experienced trauma during the country’s 1990s civil war. They didn’t expect a new traumatic event would help unite people across longtime ethnic and religious divides.

2014 started with a mild winter and early spring. Precipitation that would have fallen during a typical winter came all at once in May, bringing three months’ worth of rain in just three days.

Rachel Sommer | Mennonite Central Committee

February 16, 2015

The stay-with-us Spirit

Our theme for March is the Holy Spirit as the pledge of God’s presence. For many of us, the terms “spirit” or “holy spirit” may

Reta Halteman Finger

February 16, 2015

Plain poetry

Scores of Mennonite writers, poets, scholars and lovers of literature will gather at Fresno (Calif.) Pacific University in March for the seventh “Mennonite/s Writing Conference.”

John D. Roth

February 16, 2015

Bethel talks focus on crime, race

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Charles Epp, professor of public affairs and administration at the University of Kansas, came back to his alma mater, Bethel College,

Melanie Zuercher | Bethel College

February 16, 2015

The future of unity

Uniting the Mennonite Church and General Conference Mennonite Church seemed like a good idea 20 years ago. And it still does, though the shine has

Paul Schrag

February 16, 2015

Chance meeting unites worlds

HESSTON, Kan. — Levi Zook stopped in his tracks when Tony Brown greeted him in Pennsylvania Dutch on a train bound for Albuquerque, N.M.

Zook, an Amish man from New Holland, Pa., likely never expected to hear a language spoken predominately in Amish communities so far from home — and from a black man. Brown, an African-American Mennonite from Hess­ton, quickly revealed that the two men share religious historical Anabaptist ties. Though the simple greeting exhausted Brown’s Pennsylvania Dutch, it led to a friendship and sharing of worlds — that of the Amish, Mennonite and African-American cultures.

Rachel McMaster | Hesston College

February 16, 2015

Too safe for faith?

I ran across an article exploring why the era of kids’ adventure movies like E.T. and The Goonies is over. Similar modern films “just haven’t

Carmen Andres

February 16, 2015

Renewal from within

I am disappointed to hear of groups leaving Mennonite Church USA. Every individual, congregation, conference, denomination and renewal group falls short in some way. If

Rachel Stella

February 16, 2015

Scripture warns us

According to Webster’s dictionary, the word “gay” has been in use since about the 14th century and in a good way, but as used for

Rachel Stella

February 16, 2015

Harmony is hard to shake

While often called a humble people, Mennonites take pride in four-part hymn singing. Some even cringe at the thought of contemporary praise songs. But more

Kelli Yoder

February 16, 2015
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