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An Anabaptist response to gun violence

There is a gap in Mennonite response to mass shootings. After a shooting, when secular headlines buzz with gory details and harrowing survivals, Mennonite news

Hillary Watson

November 14, 2017

Courage to be a conscientious objector

It doesn’t take a lot of courage to be a conscientious objector — to something that everyone is objecting to. It is easier to object

John K. Stoner

November 13, 2017

Color vision of a conscientious objector

In the summer of 2010, I was in basic training at the Air Force Academy. I had heard that it was said, “war is an ugly

Zack Johnson

November 8, 2017

Fighting gun violence like cancer

What if this amendment had become a part of our Constitution? "A well regulated tobacco industry, being necessary to the prosperity of a free State,

Harvey Yoder

November 7, 2017

Have progressives made Trump God?

We live in times of heightened emotion. Enmeshed in digital media and captured by our “always-on” culture, it’s hard to unplug. The bare-knuckle fights of

Micah Bales

November 6, 2017

All up to you?

I’m sitting in Starbucks shivering over a latte while I get a new set of tires put on my car. Here in southern Alberta, we

Ryan Dueck

November 3, 2017

Building a peace resume together

“Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” — Colman McCarthy, journalist, pacifist and peace activist This coming Sunday evening at

Ruth Harder

November 1, 2017

What faith cannot do

Faith is a miracle worker. It moves mountains and heals the sick and brings about the impossible. Faith is the evidence of a world unseen.

Rosina Schmucker

October 30, 2017

Social media and the Reformation

What do Facebook and Twitter have in common with the Protestant Reformation? Nothing and everything. Oct. 31 is the 500-year anniversary of the German monk and

Joel Miller

October 26, 2017

Fundamentally flawed: How Mennonites failed to be faithful

I grew up believing my Mennonite religious tradition originated as a part of the Anabaptist movement. I would’ve been incredulous if someone had told me

Joel Stoltzfus

October 23, 2017

Evangelicalism — a modern Christian heresy

As Gnosticism was a Christian movement that was refuted as heresy, evangelicalism is a Christian movement with ideas that go far afield from Jesus, the

Jesse Glick

October 20, 2017

The anti-fascist origins of ‘Judeo-Christian values’

On Oct. 13, President Trump told participants in the Values Voter Summit that “We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values.” Now, critics found

Chris Gehrz

October 18, 2017

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