Exactly 20 years ago, when I registered with the Selective Service System, I wrote in the application’s margin: “I am a conscientious objector to participation
Saulo Padilla is fasting for immigration reform. And the hunger he feels is familiar.
A few years ago while living in Goshen, Ind., his daughters were threatened with deportation.
Mennonites and Muslims gathered around food and film at The Abraham Project Sept. 6-8 in Lancaster, Pa., in the hopes of deepening interfaith relationships.
Mennonites representing a handful of churches and Muslims from the Islamic Center of Lancaster screened a documentary about peace in the evening Sept. 6 at James Street Mennonite Church.
Seven distant points on the globe are linked by faith and farming in a study undertaken by the University of Winnipeg.
History professor Royden Loewen is hoping to gain a better understanding of how Mennonites connect with each other and the earth by studying agricultural communities in Zimbabwe, Siberia, Bolivia, the Indonesian island of Java, the Netherlands, Manitoba and Kansas. Loewen is also chair of the university’s Mennonite Studies program.
