When leaders fail us, we roll up our sleeves
During the winter of 2002-03, many of us Mennonite pacifists were concerned about the probable U.S. invasion of Iraq. It was easy to feel powerless and hard to know how to raise one’s voice.
Mennonite Church USA is celebrating its peace witness by honoring Weldon Nisly and Fernando Daza-Jabian as its 2026 Bring the Peace award recipients.
Peace Talks, an inaugural speech contest hosted by Goshen College, will invite students representing at least five Mennonite/Anabaptist colleges to compete on the same stage for the first time.
The pope linked war, environmental destruction and inequality to the same crisis of the human heart, calling for a spiritual and ecological transformation.
This year my spouse and I practiced war tax resistance and redirection for the first time. We made this choice in large part due to the support from our congregation, First Mennonite Church of San Francisco.
The trip marked Mullally’s first visit to Africa and highlighted the Church of England’s controversial reparations fund to address its historic links to slavery.
Wiyata Wacana Christian Religious College, in collaboration with the Mennonite Central Committee, held a peace curriculum development discussion on the slopes of Mount Muria, Central Java, on May 6, 2026.
“Our heritage is not a bondage, but is a beautiful gift from God from which we can learn,” said Mary Jane Hershey in 1976.
Disputes and misunderstanding are not unique to Mennonites, but I wonder if aspects of our history and culture make us more susceptible to conflict and harsh patterns of judgment and division.
Small talk isn’t on the agenda at a Climate STARR training. Instead, participants introduce themselves by answering the question: “How is your heart?”
