It sprung, she said, from an attempt to “seek solidarity and mutual support, based in the prophetic role of the churches to engage in political advocacy.”
John Stiles parked his one-man caravan at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church in late July. It had previously occupied a corner of a parking lot 25 miles away near Inman at Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, a link in an Anabaptist oasis chain stretching across the Great Plains.
Support from the Seminario Biblico Menonita de Colombia (Colombia Mennonite Bible Seminary) and Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia (Colombia Mennonite Church) have been important for the Venezuelan seminary.
A better question might be: What is the church doing to engage young adults?
Recent events in Ukraine reflect a struggle for control by international powers, the likes of which history has seen many before. Though we reside in one of those powers, we dare not choose a favorite. The United States (U.S.) and Russia are playing the devil’s game in Ukraine.
Job is one of my favorite books in the Bible and is interesting poetically, philosophically and theologically. I’m not a biblical scholar or theologian and have not read all the commentaries and expositions on the meaning of Job, but I know that the questions it wrestles with are the basic questions tripping up millions as a roadblock to faith in God …
A tiger killed a man and terrorized a village nearly 100 years ago. My grandfather, a missionary to India, shot the tiger. Its massive head and hide were preserved and then passed down through our family as a carpet until it landed in the most improbable of places: in a Brahmin priest’s prayer room on the shores of Lake Michigan …
