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For a week, the Block Bunnies ruled

There was no escaping the wailing sirens, thumping helicopters, growling military trucks, stinging smoke and, every now and then, the hollow pop of a pistol.

Rudy Okerlund

June 29, 2020

Quakers, Catholics share a call to protect our common home

The phrase “love thy neighbor” captures a call to see our shared humanity with a call to action. As Jesus taught, we should understand “neighbor”

Diane Randall, Alicia Cannon | Religion News Service

June 26, 2020

Twenty bucks or billions?

Twenty bucks started the sequence of events that led to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in the custody of four police officers.

Lowell Ewert

June 22, 2020

Whiteness, weeding and watering

During the past months of pandemic restrictions and stay-at-home orders, I have found renewal and refreshment through gardening. In the midst of all the chaos

Heidi Regier Kreider

June 18, 2020

Comfortably white

I’m a visionary. A generalist. A dreamer. Some of that is my personality. It’s also a privilege of whiteness. I can afford to have my

Marty Troyer

June 15, 2020

On the streets, protest becomes the church

PASADENA, Calif. — No cars can get through the traffic light at Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue this afternoon because a handful of black

Andre Henry | Religion News Service

June 12, 2020

We need to engage in more costly peacemaking

It does not happen often, but I am at a loss for words as cities across the United States burn and as I have endured

Glen Guyton | Mennonite Church USA

June 10, 2020

I’ll go on a fool’s errand

At a pastors conference in Winnipeg, Man., on faith formation in a secular age, the keynote speaker, Andrew Root, asked a couple of gut-level questions:

Ryan Dueck

June 8, 2020

Interfaith pilgrims

On Friday afternoons, the corner office at First Mennonite Church of Champaign-Urbana, Ill., looks out on a steady stream of worshipers gathering for prayer. They

Earl Kellogg | Michael Crosby

June 1, 2020