One sign of hope that I see in the church today is the call from our youth and young adults for authenticity in relationships. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians is a fascinating example to consider. It is one of the most emotionally honest and vulnerable epistles in the New Testament …
Dozens of miles of hard dirt road, which in dry times billowed clouds of dust but after a rainstorm became vehicle-clutching-mud, isolated me from universal reality. Or so I thought. As the only nonindigenous health-care provider in an indigenous village in the Paraguayan Chaco, I wondered how could I hope to understand or connect with the Enxet. Then I got to know Eulogio, a quiet, unassuming Enxet father …
It’s raining. The sky is gray. There’s a chill in the air. The trees are turning. Leaves clutter the ground. Fall is coming. Winter isn’t far behind …
The world has changed, and with it mission has changed. While 66 percent of all Christians lived in Europe in 1910, by 2010 only 26 percent lived there. By contrast, less than 2 percent of all Christians lived in Africa in 1910; this number skyrocketed to almost 22 percent by 2010 …
Our mission and evangelism efforts are changing. On page 34, Mennonite Mission Network executive director Stanley Green explains why his agency must adapt to a world changed from 100 years ago …
As a pacifist Christian and U.S. citizen, I am troubled by my country’s military campaigns, but our preemptive strikes are particularly disturbing. If we are going to be involved in warfare, couldn’t we at least wait and respond out of self-defense rather than bringing aggression based on so-called intelligence or even assumptions? …
