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Five things Friday roundup: Not just another political post

I’ve been trying to stay away from the political news these days. We don’t watch TV (it’s hooked up to the VCR and DVD players

Jennie Wintermote | Anabaptist World

July 19, 2024

God did not save Donald Trump

Did God save the former president, but not those who died instead?

Shane Claiborne | Religion News Service

July 18, 2024

Rachel’s tears

This, too, is Christmas: mourning with the anguished, proclaiming defiant hope

Will O’Brien

December 15, 2023

Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem

There will be no Christmas in Bethlehem this year. At least not any large festivities. The tree in Manger Square will not be decorated. In one church nativity, the baby Jesus lies in a pile of rubble.

Tammy Alexander | Mennonite Central Committee

December 8, 2023

Another report from the ground: Bethlehem

Early today I bought vegetables from the farmers who bring their goods in from nearby villages to sell on Bethlehem’s main street. Shops were beginning

Andrew Bush | For Anabaptist World

December 5, 2023

Practical theology

Biblical scholarship for laypeople is one blessing of Anabaptist book publishing

Paul Schrag | Anabaptist World

November 30, 2023

Lament for Gaza

I serve on a committee with the Mennonite Palestine Israel Network (MennoPIN), which builds relationships between congregations and groups in Gaza that are doing wonderful

Michael George | Mennonite Church USA

October 24, 2023

Jewish-led demonstrations for Gaza cease-fire see hundreds arrested at Capitol

Hundreds of demonstrators, most of them Jewish, were arrested on Capitol Hill while staging a protest calling on Congress and President Joe Biden to push

Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service

October 20, 2023

I was a Christian nationalist

Now I resist an ideology that’s as bad for the church as for the country

David C. Cramer

August 18, 2023

Pope Francis brings credibility as mediator in war

Pope Francis has launched a peace mission aimed at finding a settlement of the Russia-Ukraine war, upsetting Ukraine’s allies with his refusal to insist that

Thomas J. Reese | Religion News Service

June 9, 2023

Pope Francis sends Cardinal Zuppi to Ukraine to promote a ‘just peace’

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, traveled to Kyiv on June 5 as a representative of Pope Francis, the Vatican

Claire Giangravé | Religion News Service

June 9, 2023

Pope blasts ‘consumerist greed’ on World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation

Pope Francis condemned “consumerist greed” and “selfish hearts” as responsible for the climate crisis in his yearly message for World Day of Prayer for the

Claire Giangravé | Religion News Service

June 6, 2023

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