As the Minneapolis and St. Paul area was inundated with federal immigration agents using deadly force, Anabaptists have worked to respond in love to support their neighbors and each other.
As the Minneapolis and St. Paul area was inundated with federal immigration agents using deadly force, Anabaptists have worked to respond in love to support their neighbors and each other.
As people of faith, we’re often asked, “What should we do?” Scripture doesn’t offer a playbook for every moment, but it does illustrate a pattern of care, courage, and justice that can give shape to what our resistance looks like. What it doesn’t offer is a Jesus-shaped excuse to sit things out, even when the violence feels far away.
A three-part draft counselor training program will kick off on Sunday, February 8, 2026, 1 p.m Central time, at Joy Mennonite Church in Oklahoma City. Organized by James M. Branum, a longtime antiwar activist and one of the country’s leading civilian military law attorneys, the sessions will be also accessible online via Zoom.
In front of my apartment is an unmaintained median. Rain + unmaintained space = AJ is going to grow something. I took advantage of the situation and planted beans in the median. It was mischievous, it had little risk, and it opened up a possibility for many collateral benefits.
Almost exactly a year ago, Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, stood in a pulpit in front of the newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and preached a sermon that called on the commander in chief to have “mercy” on immigrants and other communities.
Their bright saffron robes and shoulder bags standing out against a cloudy sky, 18 Buddhist monks walked in a single file along the shoulder of U.S.-64, a four-lane highway, on January 23, drawing thousands of locals along their route.
The Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Peace & Justice Studies is presenting a free online course on Tuesdays this spring on Mennonite peace theology and ethics.
Mennonite Church USA’s Women in Leadership ministry, a denominational initiative that empowers women and works to dismantle patriarchy across MC USA, has named three new members to its steering committee.
