After 29 years in various pastoral roles in the U.S. context, I found myself working as a minister of peace and justice for a mission agency located in the global mission division …

When Joel and Leslie Gerber said they were thinking about a service term, they got some funny looks.

Muyishi Mutangidiki, a Congolese Mennonite evangelist, struggled to turn his head from the direct fury of the sun. Bound hand and foot to a corpse, a torrent of taunts further paralyzed him …

I sat in church, enveloped in my sadness. Pam, our only daughter, our beloved daughter, was, by all apparent signs, dying from cancer. Why had this cruel illness chosen her? …

To look at the past is to discover the future. In reflection, the way for today unfolds. The life of Howard Raid, ordained Mennonite minister, college professor and president, builder of numerous Mennonite organizations, businessman, church and community leader and Mennonite historian, provides a reference point for us in these uncertain times …