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Opinion: After ‘no’ vote, what’s next for Colombia?

The transformative power of the process that sought to end Colombia’s 50-year civil war was evident in the bilateral cease-fire and the FARC guerrillas’ commitment

Pablo Stucky

October 24, 2016

CMU’s experiment

A grand experiment took place in 2000. Schools from the Mennonite Brethren and Mennonite Church Canada denominations merged, creating Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Man.

Tim Huber

October 24, 2016

Rape culture exposed

What good could come from a sexual predator running for president of the United States? Just this: Donald Trump’s obscene bragging about sexually assaulting women

Paul Schrag

October 24, 2016

Letter to the editor: Change, not revolution

Trevor Bechtel attends Shalom Community Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I am watching a caterpillar make their way from the roof of my porch down

Trevor Bechtel

October 20, 2016

Comfort, Comfort Ye My People

Sara Wenger Shenk is the president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. A friend posted on his Facebook page this week: “I'm so

Sara Wenger Shenk

October 19, 2016

Revisiting a North American Anabaptist-Mennonite Alliance

Dr. Myron S. Augsburger is President and Professor emeritus of Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Persons continue to revisit my earlier proposal for an

Myron Augsburger

October 17, 2016

Conscientious objection to military taxation

Harold A. (“H.A.”) Penner, a member of the Akron (Pa.) Mennonite Church, is the Mennonite Church USA representative to the National Campaign for a Peace

H.A. Penner

October 17, 2016

Moving beyond yes or no: The search for prodigal peace in Colombia

Photo: Carolina Perez, MCC Colombia worker and member of a Mennonite Brethren Church in Bogotá participates in a march in Bogota to demand peace accords after

Bonnie Klassen, Mennonite Central Committee

October 17, 2016

Outside the perfection

Presidential elections test the conscience of two-kingdom Christians. We belong to God’s kingdom but live in the world’s. Every worldly state operates “outside the perfection

Paul Schrag

October 10, 2016

White privilege and patriotism: Mennonites, Colin Kapernick and protest

Eva Lapp is currently completing a second year of Mennonite Voluntary Service in Alamosa, Colorado, working at the Center for Restorative Programs and attending the Anabaptist

Eva Lapp

October 3, 2016

Memories of Communion

Sammy Stayton attends Rainbow Mennonite Church in Kansas City, Kansas. I remember sitting in my mom’s lap in a house church around age 5 as

Sammy Stayton

October 2, 2016

Opinion: Stronger accountability makes the church safer

A Mennonite conference took action this summer to make the church a safer space by enhancing the accountability of its credentialed leaders.

Sylvia E. Shirk

September 26, 2016

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