During the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism in 2025, we’ve honored our European forebears, including the martyr Dirk Willems. How do the radical ideas and courageous actions of early Anabaptism inspire followers of Jesus today who don’t have ethnic links to historic European Anabaptism?
What began as a simple gesture in the 1970s has grown into a cross-country friendship spanning decades, generations and nearly 3,000 miles.
Newell Presbyterian is one of hundreds of declining congregations with underutilized space, excess land, deteriorating buildings and soaring maintenance costs. But these churches are finding that they can stanch their fiscal woes by selling or, in many cases, leasing some of their land and repurposing their properties for affordable housing.
On the anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago, faith-based peace activists gathered at the Pentagon and the White House to call for nuclear disarmament and an end to war.
Six people were killed Aug. 12 in Michigan when a truck went through a stop sign and hit a van carrying members of an Amish community to a funeral.
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.
Zion Mennonite Church in Hubbard, Ore., was back to holding worship services in its sanctuary Aug. 10 after a person broke into the church the evening of Aug. 2 and started a fire inside.
It is difficult to comprehend how over 18,000 Palestinian children have been killed in in Gaza in the last 21 months, but perhaps the story of one young girl will help us understand what these children have faced.
