As a student at Goshen College, I minored in Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies. When I shared that information, people would ask, “What exactly does

Few topics garner more interest among Mennonites than Mennonite identity. Who or what is a Mennonite? In On Mennonite/s Writing, Mennonite scholar Hildi Froese Tiessen

This summer, I had the good fortune of visiting two Anabaptist groups that practice community of goods — the Fox Hill Bruderhof just outside of

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Recently, our bishop called a “family meeting,” asking church members to give their ideas on a doctrinal issue we faced. He emphasized that women should

When I traveled to Turkey a few years ago, I annoyed my traveling party by gawking at the ancient Greek inscriptions. I spent hours working

Now as Peter went here and there among all the brothers and sisters, he came down also to the saints living in Lydda. There he

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In Luke 15, Jesus tells a parable that ­centers on an impatient son — the prodigal, as we’ve come to call him — who demands