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Rare opportunity for transformative experience

Amid growing anticipation about the Mennonite World Conference assembly July 21-26 in Harrisburg, Pa., a number of questions keep surfacing within North American churches. MWC

Mennonite World Conference

January 12, 2015

To my Haitian-American daughter …

Kurt Hildebrand, an international worker in Haiti with Mennonite Central Committee, explains five years of earthquake recovery to his Haitian-American daughter, Akila (photo). In simple

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January 8, 2015

Couple third in ‘Amazing Race’ competition

Adam Dirks and Bethany Hamilton finished in third place on CBS’s The Amazing Race reality television competition. The final episode aired Dec. 19. Dirks is

Mennonite World Review staff

January 5, 2015

German services come to an end at Alberta church

Calgary, Alta. — Fond memories and deep gratitude mixed with feelings of loss as First Mennonite Church held its last German worship service Nov. 9.

Donita Wiebe-Neufeld | Canadian Mennonite

January 5, 2015

Bethel writing class helps unheard group find a voice

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Whatever Ami Regier, Bethel College professor of literary studies, might have expected from venturing into prison, it wasn’t that the experience would make her a better teacher and person.

Regier has been traveling to the East Unit, a minimum-security section of Hutchinson Correctional Facility, regularly since last spring. This fall, Will Shoup, a senior literary studies major, joined her.

Melanie Zuercher | Bethel College

January 5, 2015

MCC responds to needs of displaced in Ukraine

WINNIPEG, Man. — As people in Ukraine continue to be forced from their homes by violence, Mennonite Central Committee is asking for donations to support its work with church partners that are responding to the needs of displaced people.

Violence and armed conflicts have forced hundreds of thousands of people to seek safety in neighboring countries and within Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and wounded.

“Every person has to decide how to respond,” said . . .

Gladys Terichow | Mennonite Central Committee

January 5, 2015

Moral integrity, moral injury and the Anabaptist witness

A call for Mennonites to be a listening, nonjudgmental presence to veterans If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth

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January 3, 2015

Welcoming the Marys and Josephs

A look at the president’s executive action for immigrants Throughout the Christmas season, we are reminded often of hospitality. We extend hospitality to friends, family

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January 3, 2015

The failure to bind and loose: Responses to Yoder’s sexual abuse

Editor’s note: This is excerpted from a longer article, “’Defanging the Beast’: Mennonite Responses to John Howard Yoder’s Sexual Abuse,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 89 (January),

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January 3, 2015

Five city connections

Making theological formation and education relevant to urban churches Photo: Kim-Mai Tang and Khoa Ho are part of the Year 1 Cohort (class of 2017)

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January 2, 2015

Christ followers and community builders

Photo: An elementary student in the Sarasota (Fla.) Christian School shares what she has learned about the culture of her class Global Family School. Photo provided.

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January 2, 2015

A Bible as big as the universe

The Bible provides a master story, is bigger than our conflicts, forms us and feeds us. The Bible, I’ve come to see, is a doorway

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January 2, 2015