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Faith formed by faspa

A traditional meal embodies the way I want to live

Molly Wiebe Faber

September 3, 2024

A marriage of values, if not of faith

I’m a Christian. My husband is an atheist. I’m OK with that.

Harriet Sider Bicksler

August 2, 2024

Sojourner in Christ: a reflection on the Hope for the Future conference

Attending Hope for the Future 2024 was truly an extraordinary experience. During the conference, I could feel the presence and anointing of the Holy Spirit

Chialis Thuan Santoso

May 1, 2024

A family’s struggle to survive in Gaza

Each time they moved, shelling and bombing made them move again. The brutal reality was that there was no safe place to go.

Doug Hostetter | Amgad Al-Mahalawi

March 22, 2024

Finding Jesus in the desert

Lent, like Advent, is a penitential season. Ooh, doesn’t that sound fun?! I’ll admit that I shy away from penitential, confessional language sometimes. I react

Talashia Keim Yoder | Mennonite Church USA

March 4, 2024

Finding people who grieve the same way you do

On January 16, 2024, Lynn Hur participated in an outdoor peace vigil with about 200 Mennonites in front of the House of Representatives’ Cannon House

Lynn Hur

February 15, 2024

A lot going on at the moment

Ash Wednesday, Super Bowl Parade and Valentine’s Day, not necessarily in that order

Ruth Harder

February 13, 2024

Joy in the darkness: an Epiphany reflection

“… there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was.

Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler | Mennonite Church USA

January 5, 2024

An Advent reflection on Matthew 2:16-18

History often has a way of repeating itself. And now, within recent days, weeks, and months, it has done so again, in terrifying and viciously

Dorothy Jean Weaver | For Anabaptist World

December 11, 2023

“They are like angels”: a tribute to MDS volunteers

"It was help from heaven. When I talk about it, I want to cry. Nobody has ever helped me like this. They are like angels.”

John Longhurst | For Anabaptist World

November 1, 2023

How helping a family seeking asylum changed our church group

Before we met an Afghan family who resettled in Orange County, Calif., last year, most folks at my church knew little about asylum-seekers. We certainly

Bill Lawrence | Religion News Service

October 10, 2023

I have felt welcomed here

Hispanic Heritage Month began in the United States in 1968 as a week-long observance and was extended to a full month in 1988. There are

Naun Cerrato | Mennonite Mission Network

October 4, 2023

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