Two of the five Mennonite Brethren congregations in the Denver metro area were directly impacted by the Dec. 13 shooting at Arapahoe High School in
During Christmas we remember that God has come close, as close to us as a soon-to-be born child is to her mother: God in a womb, God in our flesh …
Mennonites and Muslims gathered around food and film at The Abraham Project Sept. 6-8 in Lancaster, Pa., in the hopes of deepening interfaith relationships.
Mennonites representing a handful of churches and Muslims from the Islamic Center of Lancaster screened a documentary about peace in the evening Sept. 6 at James Street Mennonite Church.
Seven distant points on the globe are linked by faith and farming in a study undertaken by the University of Winnipeg.
History professor Royden Loewen is hoping to gain a better understanding of how Mennonites connect with each other and the earth by studying agricultural communities in Zimbabwe, Siberia, Bolivia, the Indonesian island of Java, the Netherlands, Manitoba and Kansas. Loewen is also chair of the university’s Mennonite Studies program.
For the past four years, every Thursday morning of Holy Week, a few of us from our Mennonite community have gathered with Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists and Quakers, among other Christians, for a foot-washing worship service …
When we get together for church, we pray. The worship leader invokes the Holy Spirit with an opening litany, another person offers a congregational prayer on our behalf, the preacher prays before the sermon, various people speak joys and concerns during an open time of sharing and, finally, the worship leader returns for a prayer of benediction before we depart …
While watching Executive Board members taking a prayer walk through Phoenix on Jan. 9, I was struck by how futile—even foolish—the gesture seemed …
Our Membership Guidelines for the Formation of Mennonite Church USA say it is a teaching position of our church that homosexual sexual activity is sin.
The framers of the guidelines were wise in using the term “teaching position” …
