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Conference encourages peacemaking, opposes drones

LANSDALE, Pa. — A conference critiquing drone warfare drew about 100 participants to Christopher Dock Mennonite High School June 24-25. “Faithful Witness in a Time of Endless War: Drone Warfare and God’s Call to Peacemaking” featured presentations by religious leaders, activists, academics, a former chaplain and a former CIA operative, culminating in a public witness at the nearby Horsham Air Guard Station. The base is the site of an armed drone command center, which recently became operational.

Titus Peachey

July 18, 2016

A turning point

When it comes to turning points in history, a few come to mind for me: The assassination of John F. Kennedy; the first humans on

John Longhurst

July 18, 2016

Subversive women in Judean hills

Fleeing violence in her native Honduras, Maria made her way through Guatemala and Mexico to Indiana and our congregation in Elkhart. Now she daily awaits

J. Nelson Kraybill

July 18, 2016

Encounters with grace and dogma

A few days before Ramadan began I visited London Central mosque. It’s a huge building at the edge of Regent’s Park in the middle of

Stephen Kriss

July 18, 2016

Do-gooder’s dilemma

He usually stands at the bottom of the stairs that reach the street from the elevated train. Sometimes he sings; sometimes his spirits are low.

Celeste Kennel-Shank

July 18, 2016

Former Church of the Brethren leader takes WCC post

The former general secretary of the Church of the Brethren in the United States is taking on a new global role. Stanley Noffsinger became director of the World Council of Churches July 1. The ecumenical body counts approximately 550 million members of 345 member churches.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 18, 2016

Countdown to the end?

The British vote to withdraw from the European Union set off a scramble to predict the political and economic implications. Biblical prophecy devotees also took

Paul Schrag

July 18, 2016

MC Canada moves in a new direction

Mennonite Church Canada delegates approved a proposal to shift the denomination’s emphasis from the national level to networking among area churches and created space for congregations with differing understandings of same-sex relationships during the July 6-10 assembly in Saskatoon, Sask.

Mennonite World Review staff

July 18, 2016

MCC supports children during Ethiopian drought

ADAMA, Ethiopia — It’s time for lunch at Remember the Poorest Community School, about 60 miles south of Addis Ababa. Students are digging into the pasta and buns on their plates. For some of these children, ages 4 to 7, lunch will be their main daily meal.

Julie Bell | Mennonite Central Committee

July 18, 2016

Book review: ‘To and From Nowhere’

This refugee tale is an imaginative work of biography, dedicated to “the disenfranchised and deported everywhere.” Based on the life story of Greta Enns (1902-1985),

Rachel Waltner Goossen

July 18, 2016