Youth at Pittsburgh 2011 urged to experience variety of cultures Throughout Pittsburgh 2011, youth worship leaders Shé Hall and Derek Yoder challenged the youth to

Approximately 800 congregational and conference representatives met in the 2011 Delegate Assembly at Pittsburgh July 5-9. Four sessions on July 5 started with orientation to the week and introduction of the elements in this year’s gathering …

Pittsburgh 2011 began on July 4 with a joint worship service. Following a dramatization by Ted and Company of the Jerusalem council in Acts 15, Shane Hipps called on the thousands of adults and youth gathered to live by the higher virtue of reconciliation rather than by the divisions of those promoting either justice or purity …

We are called to receive grace from God and give grace to others. I am a huge fan of novels and movies. Many light-bulb moments

I came to the Land of Enchantment at roughly three miles over the speed limit. My uncle drove me, my trusty bicycle, an assortment of footwear, clothing, knickknacks and a guitar across the horizontal world of sky and land of Kansas into a land interrupted by rock formations …

The call of the church to be missional In his 2007 sociological study of Mennonite Church USA (Road Signs for the Journey, Herald Press, 2007),

Many Mennonites, at least those watching movies in the 1980s, likely remember the stir caused by Witness, the 1985 film set among the Lancaster, Pa., Amish community. Rather than joining the debate about whether the movie transcends the standard pattern of action flicks, my mind after all these years remains fixated on a small encounter between an obnoxious tourist and Harrison Ford, who is posing as an Amish man …

I teach chemistry (not everyone’s favorite subject), so I’m used to people not wanting me to give a presentation. When someone called in a bomb threat, however, after reading that I would speak at Markham (Ill.) Mennonite Church on a Sunday morning in 1988, it involved a topic more important to me than chemistry …