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 …

When the founders of Menno­nite high schools in North America began to develop their campuses, they probably didn't imagine the Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Ethiopian and

The long, innovative tradition of cross-cultural education continues at Mennonite colleges. Within days of landing in Botswana, Kali Emans and her classmates from Bluffton (Ohio)

How the author’s journey has been shaped by different Anabaptist communities In his book The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith (Herald

Learning from Coptic Orthodox Christians Christians in Egypt commemorate Christmas this year in the midst of great political and social instability. During the past three

On Dec. 14, 1993, mission worker Lynda Hollinger-Janzen was serving at a church-based health-care center in the West African country of Benin. In the maternity department, women would arrive well into labor, pay $3 to have their babies’ umbilical cords cut with sterile instruments, then leave a few hours later …

Could we learn something about Christian worship from spectator sports? Shortly after dawn one day, my husband and a friend headed out to a football