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A breath at the starting line

Many times over the last few months I have needed to take deep breaths and ground myself in the safety and possibility of the moment.

Danielle Klotz

September 16, 2020

My prayer covering, and this column’s purpose

Do you wear, or have you ever worn, a prayer covering? If not, do you wonder what it feels like? I have worn mine for

Lucinda J. Kinsinger

September 16, 2020

How God, the best broker, does business

Hello, new readers of Anabaptist World! I pray for all of you that the Lord’s insurance coverage in Psalm 91 is over your life, family

Anthonia Onye

September 16, 2020

Anabaptism online: fresh, creative, sometimes unruly

During the early 1980s, as Christians in Ethiopia faced severe persecution, the Meserete Kristos Church survived by shifting the primary focus of congregational life to

John D. Roth

September 16, 2020

A new and stronger way forward

Three and a half years ago, four of us — Barth Hague and Hannah Heinzekehr of The Mennonite and Paul Schrag and myself of Mennonite World Review — met one Saturday morning in Newton, Kan., to talk about the future of our two publications.

John Longhurst | For Mennonite World Review

August 24, 2020

Traditions end, and go on

My father taught me, and his father taught him, that an editorial is not a personal column. Traditionally, it is not even signed; the reader

Paul Schrag

August 24, 2020

A forum for transformation

This article comes from the September issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “135 years” of The Mennonite and Gospel Herald. My first day on the job,

Sheldon C. Good

August 23, 2020

1935, 1945 and today

We’re thinking a lot about history as the Sept. 1 merger of MWR and The Mennonite into Anabaptist World approaches. We’re remembering the inclusive vision

Paul Schrag

August 10, 2020

Sermon hardball

A well-played baseball game can seem to fly by, while a lackluster contest tests the crowd’s patience. The same is true for sermons. “I have

Tim Huber

July 27, 2020

Not so much to ask

Traveling from a Kansas county without a face-mask mandate to one that required the precaution gave a new perspective on freedom. In Harvey County, where

Paul Schrag

July 27, 2020

Where true strength lies

Forgiveness is the ability to relinquish the pervasive bitterness of soul-binding hatred in order to absolve the spirit. In many ways, it is the death

Oluwatunmiki Afisi-Shokun

July 20, 2020

The dismantling of Confederate monuments and what Scripture shows us

“You shall not make for yourself an image [carved form wood or stone] or any likeness [of anything] that is in the sky above or

Wilma Ann Bailey

July 13, 2020

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