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A missionary’s legacy

The name Makanalia is one I’ve known for almost as long as I can remember. My father, Lewis Sider, had a very special relationship with

Harriet Sider Bicksler

August 11, 2015

Transfiguration or disfiguration? Remembering Hiroshima

Aug. 6 was the 70th anniversary of the inauguration of the nuclear age, when the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima,

Ched Myers

August 10, 2015

God can plant seeds where tears are falling

Our community lost someone a few weeks ago: a young wife, mother of five, a friend and mentor, a follower of Jesus with a passion

Meghan Good

August 7, 2015

If Christ were head of the church, which schisms would he support?

We Christians are a contentious lot. Over the centuries we have divided and re-divided into countless different communions, separated from each other by diverse customs,

Harvey Yoder

August 6, 2015

Public displays of faith

Last Saturday evening I spent some time on Denver’s 16th Street mall. By nature I am a people watcher and in Denver there is no better

Glenn Balzer

August 5, 2015

Pluto and anxiety-free science

All you in the heavens, praise the Lord. . . . Sun, moon, and all you brilliant stars above: praise God! — Psalm 148 I’m

Marty Troyer

August 4, 2015

My people

Last year I left Mennonite Church USA. I left not because of negative reasons, but rather I was called by a congregation within the Church of

Alan Stucky

August 3, 2015

In the Anabaptist world, unity is alive and well

It’s been an interesting month. I attended both the Mennonite Church USA convention in Kansas City, Mo., and the Mennonite World Conference global assembly in

John Troyer

July 31, 2015

Looking back to colonization, and forward to justice and peace

Looking back to the Mennonite World Conference in Harrisburg, Pa., I am glad that the opening ceremony started with indigenous music, a reconciliation song. A

Iris Speckmann

July 30, 2015

Police brutality and Christian pacifist silence

When it comes right down to it, Anabaptist Christians can never justify siding with the police over a civilian. We are pacifist. It is a

Hillary Watson

July 29, 2015

A temple called “unity”

Walter Brueggeman describes the moment when David offers to build God a house as the balance point of David’s “glad yielding and manipulative utility” (2

Melissa Florer-Bixler

July 28, 2015

A foretaste of heaven in Harrisburg

Some 7,500 Mennonite and members of related Anabaptist groups met for the global assembly of Mennonite World Conference at the Farm Show Arena in Harrisburg,

Harvey Yoder

July 27, 2015

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