The absence of peace When you Google “Peacemakers,” two major categories pop up. The first is Matthew 5:9 from the Beatitudes. The second is the popular name of a 45 caliber six-shooter originally manufactured by Colt for the U.S. Army in the 1800s. This article is intended to prevent your confusing the two …
Elizabeth Soto Albrecht challenged the congregation of Nueva Vida Norristown (Pa.) New Life Mennonite Church on May 5: “No more shunning, no more violence. It’s a call for discernment in difficult issues. We must lead it. We must learn how to fight
for unity” …
An interesting dichotomy has been argued in Christian mission. Should the Christian’s mission in the world focus on verbal witness, or should acts of care and compassion be our priority? Word or deed, evangelism or service, gospel or peace?
During a regional gathering of the Mennonite Camping Association, Alan Stucky, pastor of Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church in Harper, Kan., shared about how God can work in people’s lives through simple conversations—even those that might seem insignificant—and through caring people following up on such conversations …
I’d known Dennis Gillespie casually for several years. A retired Lutheran minister, he was intrigued by both Mennonites and Orthodox faith. In recent years, he attended our worship services at Park View Mennonite Church and occasionally participated in our Sunday school class. His recent death from cancer underscored his deep Christian faith in a most unusual way …
Good books are being published every day. May you find time to read some of the following …
Should we expunge from our website articles and names from articles we’ve published when someone requests we do this for them? That is a conundrum we face from time to time, and we usually turn to Colleen McFarland, director of archives and records management for Mennonite Church USA. Her response: “To request their removal from the Internet is, in effect, a request for censorship” …
When we pick up a Mennonite publication or see a Mennonite in print, the voices we often hear from are among the following: Mennonite pastors, seminarians, service project workers, Mennonite parachurch employees, denominational leaders and Mennonite church members …
Early on April 12, 1528, members of the Anabaptist congregation in the German city of Augsburg gathered in the home of Susanna Doucher, located along the Bürgergässchen, for an Easter Sunday sunrise service …
Do your gadgets have glitches to which you’ve grown accustomed or resigned yourself? Mine do …
