Are Mennonites denying that Anabaptists were evangelical? The study of our history offers the enrichment of life, for we learn from the exercises of faith

Prairie View mental health center celebrates 60 years of ministry. During World War II, many conscientious objectors, including 1,500 Mennonites, gained firsthand knowledge of how

The words and actions of Pope Francis resonate with much of Mennonite faith and practice. OK, I’ll admit it. I count myself among the Christians

Jean and Howard Schmitt woke up to a routine morning on Sept. 15, 2011, in Plain City, Ohio. “Howard and I got up at the usual time, ate breakfast and did the online jigsaw puzzle, as was our custom,” Jean says. Then Howard, 77, went to the basement to finish his sermon for Sunday. Howard, a longtime pastor, was serving as part-time pastor at South Union Mennonite Church in West Liberty, Ohio. The year before he had celebrated 50 years in ministry …

The riddle of the open closed to the closed and the closed closed to the open In our Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition we have followed Jesus and

At a library fair where we were displaying our book, Necessary Conversations Between Adult Children and Their Aging Parents, a woman stopped by our table. She glanced at the book cover, read the table of contents and walked away. Later she returned, spent more time examining the book, and with a pained look on her face muttered under her breath, “I can’t do it,” and left …

The northern Spain sun beat down on Deb Schmidt as she guzzled water and followed her husband, Don, to a roadside café. They lunched there before walking several more hours that day on the Camino de Santiago, a six-week, 500-mile walking pilgrimage. She was grateful to rest her sore knees …