You know you may be on a vacation designed for a different demographic when a companion twice your age suggests: “Let’s get a picture together. We’re in the same age group: under 65.” Such was the case when Shanda, my wife, and I joined my parents and 33 other new friends on the California Mennonite Historical Society’s adventure “Seeing Poland Through Mennonite Eyes” …
In the standard telling of the story, the history of the Mennonite mission movement nearly always begins with the story of the Dutch Mennonite Mission Board and the work of its first missionary, Pieter Jansz …
I was sitting in the departure lounge at Heathrow Airport in London. Seated on one side of me were several women in white saris, veiled except for their eyes. On the other side were several bearded men in turbans, conversing enthusiastically in a tongue that was foreign to me. Another wore a specially-designed skull cap, which I took to be Islamic garb …