June 6, 2016 | Anabaptist World

Villegas reaffirmed by congregation after conference suspends credentials

Photo: Isaac Villegas, pastor of Chapel Hill (N.C.) Mennonite Fellowship and Megan Ramer, pastor of Seattle Mennonite Church, serve communion together at a June 5

Hannah Heinzekehr

June 6, 2016

Draft a new solution

On May 17, the U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee stripped a proposal from a defense policy bill that would have required women to register

Tim Huber

June 6, 2016

Dear MB Church

If you wrote a letter to your denomination or area conference, what would you say? That’s the question Carol Penner asked herself recently. In her

John Longhurst

June 6, 2016

Opinion: Pastor’s action wasn’t misconduct

Virginia Mennonite Conference has suspended the ministerial credentials of my pastor, Isaac Villegas of Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship in North Carolina, because he officiated at

Meghan Florian | Religion News Service

June 6, 2016

Syrian refugees depend on MCC food

With the war in Syria entering its sixth year, it’s easy to get lost in the facts and figures: As many as 470,000 dead; 4.6 million refugees who have fled the country; 6.6 million displaced within it; 13.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.

John Longhurst | For Mennonite World Review

June 6, 2016

Coming to terms with millstones

I read the 150-page report from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office about the abuse cases of the Altoona-Johnstown (Pa.) Catholic Diocese in the midst of

Stephen Kriss

June 6, 2016

A fool’s errand

It is ironic that in response to a Catholic statement renouncing the “just war” ethic, a Mennonite editorial declares its benefits (“Can War Be Just?,”

Letters

June 6, 2016

Pastor’s resignation

I am deeply grieved that the leaders of Virginia Mennonite Conference and the Executive Board of Mennonite Church USA have rejected the gifts and ministry

Letters

June 6, 2016

Real spiritual powers

I affirm David D. Flowers’ “Scattered Souls” (May 9). In our Western worldview and culture, we seldom hear someone openly refer to the devil, demonic forces

Letters

June 6, 2016

Yearning for God

If asked, “Are you pious?,” most Christians wouldn’t claim to be. Reverence is a virtue, but piety suggests excessive religiosity. The pious, we think, are

Paul Schrag

June 6, 2016