Edmund Janzen, 88, president of Fresno Pacific University from 1975 to 1985 during a teaching career that included a stint at Tabor College and other church leadership roles, died April 14 at his home in Fresno, Calif.
Edmund Janzen, 88, president of Fresno Pacific University from 1975 to 1985 during a teaching career that included a stint at Tabor College and other church leadership roles, died April 14 at his home in Fresno, Calif.
From 1962 to 1991, Mennonite-related organizations operated residential schools for Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario. On March 6-8, 30 survivors from those schools gathered in Dryden, Ont., to tell their stories and begin their healing journeys.
The country’s Episcopal archbishop is back in Khartoum as more people return to rebuild the capital.
David Chow, a Mennonite Brethren pastor from Calgary, Alberta, has been appointed Mennonite World Conference regional representative for North America.
As Sandra Shenk volunteered at the Mennonite Relief Center in Hinton, Va., during its annual chicken canning project in late February, she recalled the verses that were part of her Sunday school class earlier that week.
“If Jesus was at the border, would Christians let him in?” Tisby asks in his new documentary. “All too often, it seems as if, not only would they not let him in, they would celebrate blocking him out.”
Interest in leaving the U.S. military increased dramatically in March after the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began.
Church of the Brethren delegates will consider at this summer’s Annual Conference a resolution on immigration urging civil disobedience when government policies conflict with biblical teachings.
The Budget received honors at the Osman C. Hooper Awards, hosted by Ohio News Media Association, on March 26.
Thulani Conrad Lewis Moore, 71, a longtime antiracism educator and organizer who played key roles in the Damascus Road and Roots of Justice training programs, died Feb. 17. He lived in Tucker, Ga., with his wife and young daughter.
The digitization and online release of records of millions of Germans who joined the Nazi Party will make research on Mennonite involvement in the Third Reich more accessible for researchers.
