Ascension Day, celebrated forty days after Easter, remembers Christ ascending into heaven before his disciples. It can seem abstract compared to the drama of Easter or Pentecost. Yet gardening has made me wonder whether that hiddenness is part of its wisdom.
Nearly two dozen peace workers from 10 countries gathered for collaboration and encouragement March 26-29 at the European Peacebuilders’ Roundtable hosted at the Paris Mennonite Center in France.
With conflict escalating in eastern Congo, faith leaders are going into homes and displacement camps to promote peace, heal trauma and keep grief from turning into revenge.
Caring for creation isn’t primarily about reducing our waste or impact on the planet. Honoring and tending to creation is a way that we partner with God so that our world overflows with life.
A May 5 fire caused an estimated $400,000 damage to a church building owned by Mount Airy Mennonite Church in Maryland.
Once there was a woman who had very little. She had so little that sometimes there was nothing but popcorn for dinner.
It’s time for Congress to reclaim its constitutional power of the purse and answer the growing public call: Enough is enough.
Conversations between Mennonite Central Committee’s U.S. and Canadian boards and two former service workers resulted in further harm, according to the consultants who facilitated the 14-month process.
Last week, I stepped out of the classroom with twenty of my Wiyata Wacana seminary students from Pati, Java. We left our books behind and embarked on a pilgrimage — by motorcycle — along the north coast of Java, from Pati to Jepara. Why a pilgrimage? Because history learned through the soles of your feet feels different.
