Mennonite Church USA is teaming up with The Shalom Collaboratory at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and Mennonite Central Committee Central States to launch a new training initiative featuring regional, in-person workshops on conflict transformation.
Mennonite Church USA is teaming up with The Shalom Collaboratory at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and Mennonite Central Committee Central States to launch a new training initiative featuring regional, in-person workshops on conflict transformation.
Slowing down and thinking can be our friend, along with a good dose of being thankful for what we already have.
As we approach Thanksgiving, I am mindful that the “first thanksgiving” meal in 1621 was a hunted harvest feast. Reports are that colonists hunted wild turkey for the celebration, and Wampanoag hunters brought five deer. Hunting was essential to survival.
Some in Tanzania are facing a death sentence for demonstrating against what they see as flawed elections. Some who have been arrested await word on their fate. Hundreds of others died in the protests, according to news reports in recent days, leaving hundreds more to mourn and bury their relatives or to desperately search for the missing.
Dressed in a clerical collar and posing no threat, I was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by Illinois State Police while protesting outside the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Nov. 1.
Church and Peace, a European ecumenical network that includes several Anabaptist organizations, learned about East European experiences of transformation at its annual European Conference Oct. 24-26 in Herrnhut, Germany.
Mennonite World Conference has decided not to appoint a Mennonite Church USA conference minister to a representative role after three MWC member denominations raised concerns.
El Salvadorian people face their own unique struggles that set them apart from other Central American countries, and even other Latin American countries, making this small Pacific-facing nation unique in many ways.
Two Pennsylvania schools, Dock Mennonite Academy in Lansdale and Lancaster Mennonite School, hosted Anabaptist leaders from Ethiopia in October.
