The wonder is that the U.S. Army even wanted four young Hutterite farmers from the Rockport Colony in South Dakota. Soldiering was most assuredly not in their DNA. The communal church to which they belonged had been resolutely set against all warfare for 400 years …
On Christmas Day 1989, Madeline Maldonado sat at her sister-in-law’s church.
Her life seemed to be unrolling like the typical American’s: She was married, pregnant and educated—in airplane mechanics. But she was unhappy …
While some Christians campaign for certain texts to be taken literally, few advocate the authoritative nature of the wild generosity reported on in Acts 4:32-35. We hear of this early group of believers owning nothing …
For Baby Boomers such as myself (born in 1954), World War II was in the background during our formative years. It was the most destructive event, by far, in all of human history …
On the Sunday related to July 4, we can rethink what it means to be a Christian patriot. We can give thanks for the privileges we have. We can see what characterizes a Christian patriot. And we can ask, What guidance does the early church give us? …
When Nelson Okanya grew up in Kenya, he played with the children of the first mission workers from Eastern Mennonite Missions to plant a Mennonite church among his people …