July 7, 2017 | Anabaptist World

Mennonite Women USA throws a centennial party

Photo: Mennonite Women USA Executive Director Marlene Bogard and MW USA board member, Alma Perez Ovalle, perform a skit during the centennial celebration. Photo by

Hannah Heinzekehr, The Mennonite

July 7, 2017

Future Church Summit begins

Photo: Future Church Summit participants join in a plenary discussion using the spiral exercise. Photo by Vada Snider. The much-anticipated Future Church Summit (FCS) began

Gordon Houser, The Mennonite

July 7, 2017

Future Church Summit: Where’s ‘quirky’ church going?

ORLANDO, Fla. — After 14 hours of talking about how to follow Jesus as Anabaptists in the 21st century, Mennonite Church USA delegates faced the question of how to describe what they had done. Had they set a direction for the denomination’s future or made a list of ideas that needed further discernment?

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

July 7, 2017

Doing right over being right

Photo: Rachel Held Evans. Photo by Vada Snider. “Death is something empires worry about, it’s not something resurrection people worry about.” With these words, spoken

Hannah Heinzekehr, The Mennonite

July 7, 2017

Convention hymn sing

Jena O'Brien is a junior at Bluffton (Ohio) University. After a busy opening to the 2017 Mennonite Church USA Convention in Orlando Tuesday night, convention

Jena O'Brien, for The Mennonite

July 7, 2017

Mark DeVries on revitalizing youth ministry

Emma Koop Liechty is a 2017 graduate of Goshen (Indiana) College. Photo: Mark Devries. By Vada Snider. Thursday afternoon’s Featured Seminar highlighted Nashville-based youth minister

Emma Koop Liechty for The Mennonite

July 7, 2017

Youth worship: God’s limitless love expands the limits of human love

Erika Byler is a senior communication major at Bluffton (Ohio) University. Photo: Andrea Guyton and Jon Heinly speak during Thursday youth worship. Photo by Vada

Erika Byler, for The Mennonite

July 7, 2017