About 300 Plain Mennonite youth and young adults gathered June 29 at Lime Rock Meetinghouse in Lancaster County, Pa., to hear teachings on Christian nonresistance.
About 300 Plain Mennonite youth and young adults gathered June 29 at Lime Rock Meetinghouse in Lancaster County, Pa., to hear teachings on Christian nonresistance.
Toms River Mayor Daniel Rodrick told the Asbury Park Press newspaper that a vote on the eminent domain proposal — which had been scheduled for Wednesday (July 30) — is off the agenda for now.
Mennonite Collegiate Institute, a high school in Gretna, Man., has permanently shut down. The decision to close the 136-year-old residential school was made July 7 at a meeting of delegates from its 11 supporting congregations.
Throughout the centuries, the Church of Jesus Christ has faced numerous challenges in a world often opposed to the Christian faith. In Ethiopia, the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) endured a decade of persecution under a socialist regime in the 1980s. However, there are “good” challenges that MKC currently faces due to its remarkable growth, and are rooted in the healthy expansion of the church.
Bluffton University’s Board of Trustees has named the 11th president in Bluffton’s 125-year history. J. Alexander Sider has accepted the call to serve as Bluffton’s next president, effective Aug. 1.
In an era of division and splits impacting churches and conferences around the world, unification is coming to two congregations in southwest Germany.
Lacey Scully of Wichita, Kan., is the new editor of Christian Leader, the magazine of the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. She succeeds Connie Faber, who retired in May after 31 years on the USMB denominational magazine staff, including 21 years as editor.
Apocalypse in the Tropics, a new documentary by Oscar-nominated director Petra Costa, released on Netflix on July 14, shows footage of the latter uprising in exploring the intersection of faith, politics and power in the country.
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organizations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.
Colleagues of Michael Sharp in the Democratic Republic of Congo have established a nonprofit organization focused on peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
In February 2022, as Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border, a small group of Russian Orthodox Christian clergy did something extraordinary. They published an open letter calling for peace and an immediate ceasefire. Within days, nearly 300 clergy had signed it — an unprecedented act of collective dissent in Putin’s Russia.
