On Nov. 18, the pastor of an 80-person Latino Pentecostal church got a concerning WhatsApp audio message. The message, allegedly created by an unidentified pastor, circulating among Atlanta-area evangelical faith leaders, claimed massive immigration raids would occur there that week on Thursday and Friday.
African Mennonite women have been leaders of renewal and revival. They have been prophets and healers. They have witnessed miracles and cast out demons.
Mennonite Church USA has appointed new staff relating to education, marketing and the archives.
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.