September 11, 2017 | Anabaptist World

MC USA, Bethel reach agreement on GCMC records

Photo: Mennonite Library and Archives in North Newton, Kansas. Bethel College photo. Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, and Mennonite Church USA have come to an

Hannah Heinzekehr, The Mennonite

September 11, 2017

Undocumented mother takes sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite

Photo: Edith Espinal with her son at Columbus (Ohio) Mennonite Church. Photo provided. On Aug. 24, Edith Espinal, an undocumented long-time resident of Columbus, Ohio,

Hannah Heinzekehr, The Mennonite

September 11, 2017

Franconia Conference might stretch coast to coast

Franconia Mennonite Conference may receive three Indonesian congregations from the other side of the country at its assembly this November. It would be a coast-to-coast relationship. The Indonesian congregations are in the Los Angeles region, and the majority of Franconia’s congregations are in Pennsylvania.

Rachel Stella | Mennonite World Review

September 11, 2017

Kraybill: Confronting a narcissistic ruler

The moral character of a ruler can reach such low ebb that prophets arise to name and condemn the scoundrel’s behavior, even if the ruler

J. Nelson Kraybill

September 11, 2017

Book review: ‘The Radical Muslim and Mennonite’

During a Muslim-Christian peacemaking meeting in Indonesia in 2003, Mesach Krisetya, president of Mennonite World Conference, made a speech. Seeking to dismantle negative stereotypes of

Mel Lehman

September 11, 2017

Bible: High-stakes Sabbath

At my ordination interview, I didn’t give the best answer when the committee asked me about my practices of self-care. “One day each week I

Brad Roth

September 11, 2017

Does God intervene?

If B. Harry Dyck (“Opting to Be Humanist,” Letters & Comments, Aug. 14) would read Is God a Moral Monster? by Paul Copan he might understand that

Letters

September 11, 2017

Truth with a capital T

Loren Yoder’s letter, “Too Much Justified Sin” (Aug. 14), was significant to contemporary believers and Truth. I predict a majority of the liberal-progressive Mennonites of

Letters

September 11, 2017

No asterisks for us

At the Mennonite Church USA convention, attendees were asked by a worship leader to move from a diseased and disordered love — the church’s long

Letters

September 11, 2017

Kriss: Our sighs and our work are our prayers

Houston Mennonite Church Pastor Marty Troyer told me on Aug. 31, “I’ve sighed a lot in these past few days,” referring to the Spirit’s pleading

Stephen Kriss

September 11, 2017