The economy is in recession. Our denomination is shrinking in size; membership is aging. This is the milieu in which Mennonite Church USA looks for a new executive director—the top staff position in the church …
The economy is in recession. Our denomination is shrinking in size; membership is aging. This is the milieu in which Mennonite Church USA looks for a new executive director—the top staff position in the church …
The economic crash of 2008 was essentially a spiritual problem of unregulated greed and uncontrolled selfishness—the dark side of free market enterprise …
If you are looking for Ernesto Unruh, you just may find him on his hands and knees with other members of the congregation, painting the floor of the church in Yalve Sanga, the Chaco, Paraguay. If you have the honor of speaking with him, which you can do at Mennonite World Conference 2009, you will find he will humbly speak of working together with others, of cooperation and harmony …
Since the first exploration in 1921, Paraguay has become a kind of city of refuge for Mennonites. In 2008, the entire multiethnic Mennonite population, including the indigenous and Paraguayan Latinos, was around 60,000 …
The image in the Honduras newspaper La Prensa was haunting: a man in a flooded street in one of Honduras’ poorer neighborhoods holds his lifeless toddler against his chest. The child was one of 29 people killed by flooding and mud slides after Tropical Depression 16 parked itself over Honduras for almost a week last October …
The road map of faith is a thing of our own making; it is our response to the gift of the leading of the Holy Spirit. This map can guide us past the next horizon and around the next corner of challenge to a new discovery of God’s presence and purpose …
During the 2007 discussion of a plan to provide basic health care for all Mennonite Church USA pastors, executive director Jim Schrag compared the efforts that would follow to a four-lap race …
