This issue's poem The girl is not dead but asleep. See her blanket breathe? See the new sweat shiver on her brow? Watch. Her lips
I am a black belt in Aikido, a Japanese defensive art. It’s a more recent martial art, created by its founder in response to the violence he witnessed as a child and the devastation of his country as a result of World War II …
Since June I have been part of a support group for people living with depression or bipolar disorder that meets at our church roughly every other week. Meeting with this group has been helpful to me …
In 1984, Erma and Wilfred Martens were part of a small group that asked how the church could demonstrate that their daughter Linda was part of the church body. Their other daughter had been baptized, but Linda had developmental disabilities, and her ability to express her walk with Jesus was limited …
I have heard it said time and time again that Mennonite young people are leaving the Mennonite church for other activities …
Many worry Mennonite Church USA members are becoming older, and membership is becoming fewer. Here are seven young adults who are committed to their congregations.
This September, a record first-year class of 208 students enrolled at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania. This brings the current enrollment to 640 students representing 20 different countries …
Christ’s love is the comprehensive answer to human problems, but that all-encompassing compassion must be incarnated through small acts of faith …
Ted Eash remembers the event well. As a pastor, he often received news about accidents; this one was no different. Several weeks earlier, a member of his congregation, a farmer, was forced to swerve his truck. The truck flipped, injuring him and damaging the truck beyond repair …
With this quote from environmentalist Aldo Leopold inscribed on their T-shirts, 29 students and five faculty members from Eastern Mennonite High School in Harrisonburg, Va., headed westward on July 9, 2007, in our quest to create a land ethic. After traveling 22 days and nearly 8,000 miles through 22 states and nine National Parks and Monuments, we returned, tired but transformed …
