August 10, 2015 | Anabaptist World

Fritz, the Mennonite dog

I first set eyes on Fritz, the Mennonite dog, as I drove around Boise, Idaho’s North End, looking for a place to rent in 1990.

Angeline Kearns Blain

August 10, 2015

Transfiguration or disfiguration? Remembering Hiroshima

Aug. 6 was the 70th anniversary of the inauguration of the nuclear age, when the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima,

Ched Myers

August 10, 2015

North Americans, Africans weigh partnerships’ strengths, weaknesses

GOSHEN, Ind. — Mission partnerships got a report card July 13, and the grade wasn’t always an “A.”

Nearly 40 mission practitioners gathered at Silverwood Mennonite Church to discuss best practices for partnerships.

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen, Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission | Mennonite Mission Network

August 10, 2015

Garifuna’s faithful growing fast

COROZAL, Honduras — When 30 Garifuna believers gathered for encouragement and inspiration 25 years ago, they were the only Christians from that ethnic group that Eastern Mennonite Missions workers knew of.

What a difference a quarter of a century makes.

In July, the 25th annual meeting . . .

Linda Moffett | Eastern Mennonite Missions

August 10, 2015

With addition, world membership rises

The Anabaptist family is growing, both in terms of additions by members and the new inclusion of the Church of the Brethren in Mennonite World Conference’s global directory.

The latest MWC census counts 2.12 million baptized Anabaptists in 305 organized bodies and national conferences located in 87 countries. Three years ago, MWC counted 1.77 million Anabaptists in 243 conferences across 83 countries.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

August 10, 2015