Carol could never catch up financially. Before she could pay for rent, food and child care, her purse was empty. As we became friends, I often found her staring into an empty refrigerator and crying over her broken marriage. Although she was a teacher, she didn’t manage money well and was too devastated by her divorce to care …

Tears flow freely this week. Fatback died a few days ago. Liver failure. Caroline gathers us into a circle around the plastic folding table. Hand in hand—some more filthy than others …

I studied in the Middle East with Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va., during the fall semester of my junior year, and this period of international learning altered the course of my life. My experiences abroad initiated misgivings about going into medicine after graduation, I began a period of global travel to explore possibilities …

Thousands of miles separate the Colombian Mennonite Church (IMCOL) and Mennonite Church USA. But a common struggle for greater faithfulness bonds these churches in ways that bring them as close as the heartbeat of Christ …

Philadelphia Praise Center (PPC) and Nations Worship Center, two Franconia Mennonite Conference congregations, call the same South Philadelphia neighborhood home …

This is a story about a Mennonite church and an American flag. It’s a story with no elves or fairies but a tale of people helping those who wander the earth …

Soon after Living Water Community Church relocated to a Chicago street corner where a gang shooting occurred in 2001, the church discovered that the way to young people’s lives is sometimes through their stomachs …

Fault lines appeared within Mennonite Church USA last fall as presidential politics polarized the nation. Sentiments were so strong they sometimes stretched relationships within families and congregations …

New program of formal theological education in Spanish One of the growing edges for Mennonite Church USA is the racial-ethnic constituency. The Racial/Ethnic Leadership Education

Students study on campus and off to get their seminary degrees. Because increasingly diverse journeys are leading students to Mennonite Church USA’s seminaries, Associated Mennonite

Going to Christopher Dock High School in Lansdale, Pa., has been a priceless experience for senior Amanda Yoder. The value isn’t only the Anabaptist faith perspective or how the spiritual riches received far outweigh the price tag of tuition …

Poety I have a friend who is learning about presidents. My friend is fifty-seven and dying. I care nothing of presidents and would as soon