Expanded church welcomes neighbors from near and far
The residents of Tehran woke on March 8 to thick, black smoke engulfing their city after the Israeli military bombed fuel depots. The immediate human and environmental impacts of the war were disturbingly evident, but what about the broader climate impact?
Rachel Fisher, a junior at Lancaster Mennonite School in Pennsylvania, won the grand prize for her essay on climate and peace in Mennonite Central Committee U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries’ annual public policy essay contest.
During his June 10 homily before over 4,000 people, and surrounded by the nature-inspired architecture of Antoni Gaudí, often referred to as “God’s architect,” the pope made a forceful appeal against war and in defense of human life.
It might surprise you to know (like it did me!) that the Christian summer solstice connection is to a Biblical character.
When can compromise be life-giving?
Eastern Mennonite University and Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community announced a strategic partnership on May 11 that includes EMU selling to VMRC a 13-acre forest situated between the neighboring institutions.
The song “New Earth, Heavens New” (Voices Together, 377), based on Revelation 21:5, envisions “new man, woman new” as a part of God making all things new. How do you see a biblical and ethical vision of womanhood, manhood or personhood being fulfilled, or not fulfilled, in the church, family and society?
In the midst of a devastating cancer diagnosis, Kate Bowler also found experiences of joy. Now she’s written a book about it.
The executive committees of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada agreed not to pursue a new Confession of Faith in the foreseeable future during a joint meeting May 22-24.
The version housed at Virginia Theological Seminary is not for sale, and archive staffers plan to seek the best ways to make its contents available for the public to view.
