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For youth, a guide to life’s road

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For 2,300 youth, the prevailing takeaway from Mennonite Church USA’s convention was: Jesus will meet you where you are.

Hannah Yoder, 17, of Freeman, S.D., described how she saw it: “You don’t have to achieve something or somehow meet some qualifications. Jesus will come to you, and he’ll walk with you on the way. I think of that as on the road of life.”

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

July 20, 2015

Youth speakers share stories of pain on life’s road

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Most of the six youth worship speakers addressed the week’s theme, “On the Way,” and scripture, Luke 24, by describing pain they

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

July 20, 2015

Promises God does not keep

That’s a piecrust promise. Easily made, easily broken. — Mary Poppins I did not truly understand the magnitude of making a promise until I had children.

Sarah Kehrberg

July 20, 2015

Heartbreaking moment

I am a 76-year-old lesbian, in a committed relationship for close to 30 years and a delegate to the Mennonite Church USA convention in Kansas

Letters

July 20, 2015

Oppressive or permissive?

Is this how the dream of a big-tent church dies? We hope not. But it seemed to some that Mennonite Church USA’s vision of unity

Paul Schrag

July 20, 2015

Adult seminars: growth comes when values are lived

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The greatest periods of growth for the Christian church have been the most removed from institutional religion. Author Alan Hirsch offered

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 20, 2015

Diverse Ontario a leader in unity

The “promised lands” of Sam Steiner’s comprehensive history of Mennonites in Ontario are both geographical and spiritual destinations. Ontario was a land of opportunity for

James C. Juhnke

July 20, 2015

Stubborn love

With all the talk of the transformational power of walking the Emmaus road and breaking bread together, it felt jarring to come home from the

Tim Huber

July 20, 2015

The biggest issue

“What’s the biggest issue your church is facing these days?” It’s a question that gets asked and answered in dozens of ways as Christians cross

R. Showalter

July 20, 2015

Perilous times

In much contemporary discussion, scriptural authority no longer seems important. Instead, God’s love and Christian forbearance are listed higher. Our gracious God is “slow to

Letters

July 20, 2015

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