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Give not just thanks

As leaves fall and frozen turkeys thaw, the Thanksgiving season offers a chance to pause for a few days and reflect on the previous year’s

Tim Huber

November 23, 2015

Bible: Sabbath-keeping, empire-breaking

I’ve never been very good at keeping the Sabbath. To my knowledge, this is the only case where public admission of habitual commandment-breaking might actually

Meghan Good

November 23, 2015

Canadian MB Conference organizes ‘God, Sex and Church’ study event

Representatives of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches gathered for an Oct. 21-23 study conference to talk about something that is often avoided. “God,

Mennonite World Review staff

November 23, 2015

A time to scatter

The words of the Teacher in Ecclesiastes 3 match the experience of Mennonite Church USA: There is a time to gather stones and a time

Paul Schrag

November 23, 2015

Enemy of justice

I could face torture, prison or execution in many nations if I spoke out publicly there as I do here. The U.S. supports bloody regimes

Letters

November 23, 2015

What doesn’t change

Change is in the air. Telephones I started using yesterday are antiques. Email is ancient. The Berlin Wall, which I visited as a 19-year-old, was

Richard Showalter

November 23, 2015

Book review: ‘Nonviolent Action’

Most people know, at least generally, what Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. did to effect change with nonviolence. But can you name

Ted Lewis

November 23, 2015

Change the focus

Over half of the Nov. 9 front page is filled with same-sex issues. What a different message we would give to the churches and the

Letters

November 23, 2015

Opinion: Riots are failed cries for justice

In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” That comment resurfaced after riots by African-Americans in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore in the past two years. Deaths of young African-American men at the hands of police officers precipitated the riots.

J. Denny Weaver

November 23, 2015