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What are Anabaptists becoming?

ELKHART, Ind. — Pastors Week participants at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary pondered metaphors of rhizomes, a flame, a midwife and mestizos as they heard challenges to trust God more fully and to share authority more widely.

The biblical text from 1 Cor. 3:11 . . .

Mary E. Klassen | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

February 9, 2015

Committee: No structural solution to MC USA tensions

The idea that major structural change might help Mennonite Church USA resolve its conflicts has been tested and dropped.

Instead, delegates at this summer’s convention will turn their attention to polity, or church governance, as they deal with issues of sexuality and authority.

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

February 4, 2015

Believers baptism churches meet

KINGSTON, Jamaica — For the first time, representatives of six churches that practice believers baptism gathered to discuss mutual recognition of baptism and Christian unity.

At the consultation, held Jan. 8-10 in Kingston, participants shared their understandings and practices of baptism and explored how their thinking . . .

Mennonite World Conference

February 2, 2015

Conrad Grebel president promotes the three ‘Cs’

BLUFFTON, Ohio — The three Rs have been viewed as foundations of education since the days of the one-room schoolhouse. But the president of Canada’s

Bluffton University

February 2, 2015

EMU students enlist Nobel laureate in fight against Ebola

HARRISONBURG, Va. — After spending the summer thousands of miles from her native Liberia and watching nervously as Ebola swept through her country, sophomore Winifred

Lauren Jefferson | Eastern Mennonite University

February 2, 2015

Foundation’s record year benefits MB church

HILLSBORO, Kan. — MB Foundation earnings set records in 2014, so the U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches’ financial agency is sharing an unprecedented amount with

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

February 2, 2015

Government to pay fees of Conestoga attorneys

The federal government will pay $570,000 in legal fees to attorneys who worked with a Mennonite-owned Pennsylvania cabinet company that challenged a birth control mandate

Mennonite World Review staff

February 2, 2015

South Korean events showcase student peace movies

Lessons of peace were highlighted through short films and workshops at two parallel events co-hosted by the Korea Peacebuilding Institute. KOPI, which is supported by

Wil LaVeist | Mennonite Mission Network

February 2, 2015

Rural churches face unique challenges

HESSTON, Kan. — Rural congregations are highly attuned to the seasons. While fields lie fallow and winter wheat slumbers, representatives from Midwestern Mennonite Church USA conferences gathered in Kansas for a look at the gifts and challenges unique to such churches.

Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary—Kansas Center hosted a rural ministry course Jan. 20-22 capped by a seminar by S. Roy Kaufman on “The Mission of a Rural Congregation” Jan. 24 . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

February 2, 2015

Christian leaders ask presidential candidates how they’ll fight poverty

WASHINGTON — Mennonite Church USA leaders have joined with a group of Christian leaders looking ahead to what the next president might do to address

Mennonite Church USA | Mennonite World Review

February 2, 2015

Neighbors level home tied to abducted Amish girls

Neighbors have bought, burned and buried the house of a couple facing federal charges after kidnapping a pair of New York Amish girls. The (Syracuse)

Mennonite World Review staff

February 2, 2015

United for a safe community

FRESNO, Calif. — The Goliath they face is huge: gang violence, unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse and more. But, like David, United Faith Christian Fellowship is boldly stepping up to the challenge.

The violence hit home for the small Mennonite Brethren congregation a couple of years ago when a neighborhood house was hit by gunfire in a gang altercation. The home belonged to the parents of a young woman in the church family and shook up the congregation.

Kathy Heinrichs Wiest | For Christian Leader

January 30, 2015