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Poetry: Faith is Action

If God is love How can it be enough To simply go to the “right” place Or live the “right” way God is love God

Anise Welty

October 20, 2025

Poets innovate with word and image

Can poetry or other writing really be “Mennonite”? Scholars have debated this question for decades.

Eileen Kinch | Anabaptist World

October 7, 2025

James Forbes Jr. discusses ministry, family and overcoming adversity in poetry-filled book

When James A. Forbes Jr. has faced challenges throughout his life, he’s turned to two sources of inspiration that helped him persevere: his faith and his poetry.

Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service

July 10, 2025

Fire

they told me a woman with bright orange hair came to my country before it was mine from a very different place carrying her flour

Rochelle Martin

June 12, 2025

Poetry: Scraps

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. every year she plowed neat furrows of stitches upon a quilt or two.

Dora Dueck

May 8, 2025

Worship is as worship does

The sacred is no longer accorded time nor space; no need to reserve or provide room for the divine, the holy. Efficiency is the winner

Lonnie Buerge

April 10, 2025

In the church I attend

In the church I attend, one warm summer Sunday during worship, two large dogs ran in through the open door. Noses to the floor, they

Leonard Nolt

March 25, 2025

Your one dear life

Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. Oh how you love your one dear life, this thrust of spade in

Dora Dueck

February 13, 2025

Their children

Rising from Ramah, loud lament, Rachel, inconsolable, crying for her children— their bodies beaten, brutalized, burned, scattered across landscape; their lives carried away, taken captive,

Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

January 30, 2025