November 10, 2015 | Anabaptist World

EMM refocuses discipleship training programs

Photo: Eastern Mennonite Missions GO! participant Sherida Cross (right) helps Cheng Yen (left) and Darren with a photo frame craft at Immanuel Community Church in

Eastern Mennonite Missions

November 10, 2015

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of

J. Nelson Kraybill

November 10, 2015

Powerful pen

Photo: Retired school teacher Dona Maria Martins (right) and pastor Fridbert August of Igreja Evangélica Menonita Água Verde (Green Water Mennonite Church) in Curitiba, Brazil show

J. Nelson Kraybill

November 10, 2015

Opinion: Hear the conservative voice

The discussion in Mennonite Church USA about LGBTQ people in the life of the church seems not to welcome the conservative voice. Although many parts of the denomination still are largely represented by the conservative voice and exclude LGBTQ people, the MC USA convention last summer in Kansas City, Mo., represented a dramatic and recent shift.

Keith Schrag

November 10, 2015

Bible: Paul, the restless preacher

The next four cities Paul and his companions visit — Thessalonica, Berea, Athens and Corinth — are all in what is now Greece. As they

Reta Halteman Finger

November 10, 2015

Autumn needs All Saints Day

While the family photos of friends and their children in some really terrific All Hallows Eve costumes in my Facebook news feed are a fading

Malinda Elizabeth Berry

November 10, 2015

Unite for peace

Pursuant to the “Faithful Witness Amid Endless War” resolution adopted by the Mennonite Church USA delegates in Kansas City last summer, isn’t now the time

Letters

November 10, 2015

Purer but weaker

A purity parable: Alloys are stronger than pure metals. Pure metals have regular layers of atoms that slide over one another easily. In alloys, the

Letters

November 10, 2015

Preoccupied with sex

Should a historian one day evaluate the major theme dominating the church during our time, would he or she not say we were preoccupied by

Letters

November 10, 2015

Our history is absorbed into our whiteness

In the beginning of his acclaimed book Between You and Me, written as a letter to his adolescent son, Ta-Nehisi Coates wonders how Mennonites came

Stephen Kriss

November 10, 2015