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5,000 Congolese Mennonites in hiding to escape violence

Mennonite church members report increasing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Central Kasaï Province, where Michael J. Sharp, an American Mennonite, died on a United Nations peacebuilding mission last month.

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen, Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission | Mennonite Mission Network

April 7, 2017

Things borrowed — a donkey, a room, a tomb

What do these “things borrowed” have in common? This year during Lent, while rereading the accounts of Jesus’ last days before his crucifixion, several things

L. Kenneth Fellenbaum

April 7, 2017

More than 5,000 Congolese Mennonites in hiding

Photo: Niclette Mbendji could be described as today's typical Mennonite: a young African woman. Mbendji lived in Ndjoko Punda when this photo was taken. Rebels have

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen, Mennonite Mission Network

April 6, 2017

Lent reflection: Good direction and great strength

In my life, I have had no personal enemies. No one, to use the classical definition, has tried to kill me. Of course, there have

The Mennonite

April 5, 2017

Lent reflection: Did I not say, do not mislead me!

Scripture passage: II Kings 4:18-37. I wasn’t particularly eager to become a mother. Ambivalent would be an apt description. But nothing else I've done has

The Mennonite

April 4, 2017

Gun shots and privilege

On a recent Saturday as my wife and I rode motorcycles to Albuquerque, N.M., two people were shot in my neighborhood. According to my neighbors, dozens

Glenn Balzer

April 4, 2017

MJ Sharp: the witness of ‘a kind soul’

Photo: Michael (MJ) Sharp speaks at the U.N. Security Council in 2016. Photo provided by the Sharp family. Michael (MJ) Sharp, whose death in the

Gordon Houser, The Mennonite, Inc.

April 3, 2017

Minority Ministries Council reconnects and shares

Photo: Gilberto Perez, senior director of intercultural development & educational partnerships at Goshen (Indiana) College, and John Powell, former leader of the Minority Ministries Council,

Joshua Stoltzfus, Goshen College and The Mennonite, Inc.

April 3, 2017

For the sake of the children

“We were born for this!” In the height of an emotionally powerful song, in the midst of a worship service, the worship leader with his

Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg

April 3, 2017

Stutzman to retire as Executive Director in 2018

Photo: Ervin Stutzman, right, caucuses with moderator-elect David Boshart and moderator Patty Shelly at last fall’s Executive Board meetings. MC USA photo. Ervin Stutzman, executive director

Mennonite Church USA staff

April 3, 2017

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