How does an Amish girl from rural Iowa grow up to serve on a New England city council, move to Afghanistan and eventually work at the esteemed Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?

Edible plants bring beauty, food and less lawn to mow. Can landscaping be beautiful and edible? Absolutely. When concerns have risen about safety and sustainability

Immigrants from Indonesia receive different treatment, depending on their circumstances. Sunoko Lin, the bivocational pastor at Maranatha Christian Fellowship in Northridge, Calif., sees multiple sides

Immigration denial has a bittersweet effect on a Virginia church plant.

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 …

A Canadian veteran commits to peacemaking. Fred Ritchie was a tank commander in Italy during World War II. Tall at 6’3”, he answered the call

Jesus is more than just a savior or an example. “To win this game we have to get the ball inside. Drive the lane, take

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 …