A hymn sing celebrated 500 years of Anabaptism Sept. 27 at Hyattsville Mennonite Church in Maryland.
A mix of vision, necessity and desire for unity led the Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba and Mennonite Church Canada to merge their colleges in Winnipeg to create Canadian Mennonite University in 2000. And that spirit continues today.
John L. Ruth wrote ’Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite View of the American Revolution because he couldn’t find stories about his eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the American Revolution in history books.
A group is working to bring Dirk Willems back to his hometown.
Comparisons between early Anabaptism and global Anabaptist (and even non-Anabaptist) expressions of faith abounded at a conference hosted by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies in Elizabethtown, Pa., July 22-24.
Christians in a region of China that Mennonite mission workers evangelized 120 years ago dedicated a worship center June 26.
The outbreak of measles in under-vaccinated communities has its beginnings in the conservative Mennonite community of Texas. In contrast to hesitancy today, these traditional and separated communities have had a close relationship to vaccines since the early 1800s.