December 9, 2019 | Anabaptist World

Mennonite Creation Care Network to offer new grants

Photo: Randall, Ellen and son Connor Stoesz met with Jennifer Schrock of Mennonite Creation Care Network at the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale. Randall is one

Mennonite Creation Care Network

December 9, 2019

Bethel College avoids probation, accreditation ‘on notice’

Photo: The Bethel College campus. Photo by Taylor Brown/Bethel College Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, avoided probation in November when it learned its accrediting

Bethel College

December 9, 2019

Advent: Healing has come, God is here

Editor’s note: Throughout Advent, bloggers for The Mennonite will write reflections on the upcoming Sunday’s Lectionary text. These reflections are archived at themennonite.org/advent. Sign up

Regina Shands Stoltzfus

December 9, 2019

A bend in the road: Shifts in life require making turns

This article comes from the December issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “The unexpected.” Read more reflections here or subscribe here to receive more original features in your inbox

Sheldon C. Good

December 9, 2019

I wear my heart on my sleeve

When Alisha and I and our son, Asher, moved to Barcelona, many things didn’t make the cut in our attempt to “leave all things behind”

Joshua Garber | Mennonite Mission Network

December 9, 2019

Powell: Where’s the joy in tense times?

An acquaintance said to me, “Another year is almost over. Christmas will soon be here. I can’t get into the spirit with all the divisiveness

John Powell

December 9, 2019

Showalter: Nondefensive ethnicity

This autumn I participated in a retreat for CMC overseers and bishops in Columbus, Ohio. Serving on a panel, I and others were asked to

Richard Showalter

December 9, 2019

The face of God

The second commandment God etched in stone warned the Israelites not to imagine what God looked like. There must be no “graven image” of Yahweh.

Paul Schrag

December 9, 2019

Kratz plays for U.S. team in Japan

After Major League Baseball’s regular season ended, Erik Kratz played fall baseball in a different kind of world series.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

December 9, 2019

Yoder-Short: What if Jonah came to us?

After hearing a series of sermons on Jonah, I’ve started seeing this reluctant prophet in unexpected places. Jonah used to be safely confined to a

Jane Yoder-Short

December 9, 2019