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Toward understanding whiteness

My Mind changed about Drick Boyd’s book when I read these lines. Written after the murder of George Floyd yet before the white nationalist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Disrupting Whiteness is about how to talk to white people about racism.

Jonny Rashid | For Anabaptist World

February 9, 2023

Once-muted voices speak out on abuse

Years before the #MeToo movement — the wave of resistance to perpetrators of sexual abuse — Mennonites in some quarters were addressing sexual abuse and

Rachel Waltner Goossen | For Anabaptist World

January 14, 2023

Playful circularity of then and now

The title of Dora Dueck’s excellent new book, Return Stroke, ostensibly refers to an event in her late father-in-law’s life, when he was 24 and

Melanie Springer Mock | For Anabaptist World

December 16, 2022

What would the Lenape say?

Historian, Pastor and Pennsylvania native John L. Ruth has long interpreted European and American Mennonite history to appreciative audiences. Like his earlier projects, this book

Rachel Waltner Goossen | Anabaptist World

August 24, 2022

Spiritual foundation for antiracism

Regina Shands Stoltzfus and Tobin Miller Shearer have worked together on dismantling racism for almost 30 years. They are co-founders of the Roots of Justice

Gordon Houser | For Anabaptist World

August 2, 2022

Eight streams flow for peace

Like the word “peace,” “nonviolence” carries different meanings. It invites several questions: What is violence? How does one oppose it? Is that done only individually,

Gordon Houser | For Anabaptist World

June 12, 2022

A house of faith, rebuilt better

As a young Christian, I was taught faith is constructed from the ground up. At the foundation is belief in objective, universal truth, grounded in

David C. Cramer | For Anabaptist World

May 22, 2022

More than platitudes on mental health

I met a former student for coffee, and our talk turned to the mental health challenges she’d navigated during her teen years. Only vaguely aware

Melanie Springer Mock | For Anabaptist World

May 4, 2022

Wartime questions of conscience

When a historian compares today’s political divisions in the United States to conditions during the Civil War, do you imagine what it would be like

Carol Lehman

March 24, 2022

People of the land, around the world

Mennonite Farmers is the result of a multiyear collaboration of the author, Winnipeg-based historian Royden Loewen, with scholars John Eicher, Hans Peter Fast, Susie Fisher,

Anabaptist World | Rachel Waltner Goossen

March 1, 2022

From first mission site to MWC host

For anyone thinking about attending the 17th Mennonite World Conference global assembly in Indonesia on July 5-10, A Cloud of Witnesses is for you. Roth,

Gordon Houser

February 6, 2022

Conflict: gateway to positive change

If, as Betty Pries writes, “the place of the deeper self is the location of oneness between self and other,” it follows that our journeys

Ted Lewis

January 21, 2022

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