The selection of Pope Leo XIV is encouraging because of his call for missionary outreach, building bridges of understanding and identification with ordinary people. Leo

I take exception to the premise that “elbows up” is an offensive maneuver (“Elbows Up! Is That Anabaptist?,” May). It is at least equally a

The January 2024 Anabaptist World featured the INSPIRE campaign, which invites White people who have benefitted from discriminatory systems to pledge 1% of their net

Christian nationalism — the belief that church and state are inseparable — raises profound questions about how the kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed relates

As a Mennonite attorney who has par­ticipated in many lawsuits against the government, I offer a different perspective on the lawsuit Mennonite Church USA has

I understand the concern about the Trump administration’s rescission of protections that allowed churches to act as sanctuaries. This decision is negatively affecting both undocumented

Re: “Grief and Hope” (April): In Sierra Leone, a country with high child-mortality rates, young children who die are often not formally grieved. In our

Thank you to Lois Landis for asking to understand more about abortion, contrasting it with the deathly situation in Gaza (Letters, April). I, too, am

In Letters & Comments (my favorite part of the magazine; I am not Mennonite), a writer asked, “Why the silence on abortion?” (February). Reading Anabaptist

Thanks for the fantastic article by Sierra Ross Richer about Levi Geyer’s hickory nut endeavor (February). I look forward to more articles in this series.

Growing up in the shadow of the Cold War, there was a clear sense of who the “good guys” were and who the “bad guys”

After reading the interview and book review of Nightbitch (March), I felt appalled that Anabaptists would endorse a book and movie that portrays motherhood (and therefore, children) as something that drives us to the edge of insanity.