February 15, 2016 | Anabaptist World

My top 10 songs: Ben Wideman

We’re featuring playlists from different individuals across Mennonite Church USA reflecting on their top 10 most important songs. This playlist comes from Ben Wideman. Ben is the

Hannah Heinzekehr

February 15, 2016

Executive Board and Mennonite agency leaders meet in Chicago

Photo: Mennonite Church USA Executive Board members (from left to right) Nisha Springer, Zenobia Sowell-Bianchi and Larry Hauder talk together during Feb. 11-13 meetings in Rosemont,

Hannah Heinzekehr

February 15, 2016

Time to turn off the news?

One of my favorite morning rituals is sitting down with breakfast and opening up the newspaper. I understand there aren’t many in my generation that

Micah Bales

February 15, 2016

Bible: No need to wait to wipe the slate clean

Growing up, the first day of school was the most sacred day on my annual calendar. Whatever regrets, whatever mistakes had marked the previous year

Meghan Good

February 15, 2016

Freed from madness

Imagine a violent tormented sociopath transforming into a person in their right mind. Imagine pigs running and drowning in the sea. Some stories are just

Jane Yoder-Short

February 15, 2016

Willful violation

Randy Kraybill (Letters & Comments, Jan. 18) has hit the nail on the head. There can be no dialogue if people do not uphold the authority

Letters

February 15, 2016

Accessible education is a faith and justice issue

I’ve had several conversations questioning the validity of the quote, “Now we are faced with an onslaught of potential annihilation,” in my March 16, 2015,

John Powell

February 15, 2016

Ties that passionately bind

The group studied its holy texts, grew incensed with a corrupt and wayward government, armed itself and took control of an institution it was convinced

Tim Huber

February 15, 2016

Lockdown puts new twist on Bethel prison theater

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — When professor of communication arts John McCabe-Juhnke put his former “pilot project” into Bethel College’s interterm curriculum, he knew his students would learn things that surprised them.

Melanie Zuercher | Bethel College

February 15, 2016

The unity Jesus meant

Few scriptures have been so frequently quoted in recent years by North American Anabaptists as the prayer of Jesus “that they may all be one”

Richard Showalter

February 15, 2016