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Praying with Jesus for unity

The difference praying for unity can make in our lives and congregations Silence, prayer, work, worship. Mennonites living like this? We tried it. Thirty years

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January 30, 2015

The woman behind ‘Mennonite Community Cookbook’

February cover story: A look at the life and influence of Mary Emma Showalter (1913-2003) Many Mennonites today know Mary Emma Showalter Eby as the

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January 30, 2015

An ‘earth keeper’

Jon Zirkle weeds outside in the Goshen, Ind., area. Photo provided. After a long day of feeding the chickens, mixing soil, and monitoring produce, Jon

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January 27, 2015

AMBS students join Fort Benning SOA witness

ELKHART, Ind. — For the students who traveled from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary to Fort Benning, Ga., in November, the experience of witnessing for peace and justice raised questions while it inspired and challenged them.

Taylor Dwyer-Zeman, Katerina Friesen and Sandra Stevens participated in the Nov. 21-22 march on the Stewart Detention . . .

Mary E. Klassen | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

January 19, 2015

In Benin, economic empowerment born out of tragedy

COTONOU, Benin — It took the death of a child to create a community bank that brings more abundant life to many people in Benin.

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen | Mennonite Mission Network

January 19, 2015

Bluffton forum game show puts Ebola in context

BLUFFTON, Ohio — The emphasis was on perspective in “Ebola and Fear: A Public Health Perspective,” offered by Ross Kauffman Jan. 6 in a Bluffton

Bluffton University

January 19, 2015

Planting opportunity, rebuilding lives

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Breezes flutter the sheer fabric hanging in the doorway of Gladys Joseph’s new home in Cabaret, 24 miles outside Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. There’s room in the yard for her children to play. And, for the first time since she was sent to Haiti’s capital city as a child, she’s able to have a garden — corn, beans, manioc and okra.

Five years after a devastating earthquake tore across Port-au-Prince . . .

Marla Pierson Lester | Mennonite Central Committee

January 12, 2015

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