Broadening the Anabaptist vision toward the care of animals When I meet new people and tell them that I am from New York, most assume
Since I officially retired from my bishop oversight duties and college teaching a few years back, I have had the strange pleasure and puzzlement of hearing a variety of responses to that news …
Fifty years of continuous pastoral ministry at one Mennonite congregation must set a modern pastor longevity record. But length of faithful service is only one of the unique characteristics of Arthur Roth, pastor of Julesburg (Colo.) Mennonite Church, a member of the Central Plains Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA …
At the delegate session in Pittsburgh last summer, André Gingerich Stoner remarked that many Mennonites “love service, flirt with peace and are allergic to evangelism.” Many felt he hit a home run with that comment. That means we have a ways to go to become a missional church. Service, peacemaking and evangelism are all needed in order to fully proclaim the gospel …
According to one survey, 92 percent of American households own a Bible, and of those who own a Bible, the average number owned is three …
Recently, a young Mennonite told me she wasn’t interested in the institutional Mennonite church. She was inspired instead, she said, by the radical work for the poor that she saw described by Shane Claiborne …
