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We’re due for another Reformation

Every 500 years or so, the church has a giant garage sale, getting rid of the stuff it no longer needs. That’s what author Phyllis

John Longhurst

December 21, 2015

New life from loss

Blackened trusses stand against the sky above the walls of an old church that burned. I often pass the corner where the church has sat

Celeste Kennel-Shank

December 21, 2015

Old way still applies

Lancaster Mennonite Conference’s decision to withdraw from Mennonite Church USA by the end of 2017 is a major loss, and not just because Lancaster is

Paul Schrag

December 21, 2015

EMU administrator knew South Carolina classroom assault officer

HARRISONBURG, Va. — When a person you know well makes a regrettable choice, how do you reconcile what you know about that person with his or her actions? And how do you share what you know about this person without seeming to excuse the action? These questions confronted Luke Hartman, vice president of enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University, when he saw on national news the video of resource officer Ben Fields flipping over a black student’s desk and tossing her across the classroom in a South Carolina high school.

Lauren Jefferson | Eastern Mennonite University

December 21, 2015

Book review: ‘Peace, Progress and the Professor’

Perry Bush’s Peace, Progress and the Professor is technically a biography of Mennonite historian C. Henry Smith. But it’s actually a timely time machine. It

Rich Preheim

December 21, 2015

The Christ story

Do we really believe Jesus? Many read the Bible about the birth of Jesus and the miracles of his birth and life. The Christ story

Letters

December 21, 2015

EMM workers help refugees in Germany

HALLE, Germany — Eastern Mennonite Missions workers here say refugees need Jesus more than clean bedsheets, but they want to give them both. As Germany deals with Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II, EMM workers in Halle have joined in the emergency relief efforts.

Stephanie Hanna | Eastern Mennonite Missions

December 21, 2015

2015 in review: Drawn together, driven apart

Unity and division crossed paths in Pennsylvania this summer as Harrisburg hosted the Mennonite World Conference assembly and Lancaster Mennonite Conference moved to leave Mennonite Church USA. Word of Lancaster’s proposed withdrawal spread during MWC’s weeklong celebration of global fellowship. The timing heightened the sense of contrast between Anabaptists drawing closer across national borders and splitting apart within one of them.

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

December 21, 2015

Songs that unite us

We sometimes think that we are the church on our own — whether that’s our local congregation, our area conference or our denomination. But every

Andre Gingerich Stoner

December 21, 2015

Thank you, Apostle Paul

Dear Apostle Paul: I know this comes almost two thousand years late, but I want to thank you for helping carry the gospel to Europe

J. Nelson Kraybill

December 21, 2015
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