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Values with value

Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman gave a convocation speech in February at Bethel College in North Newton, Kan. He encouraged the students to read each

Paul Schrag

April 27, 2015

Gay advocacy group gets $150,000 grant

The Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests announced Feb. 12 that it has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter

Mennonite World Review staff

March 2, 2015

Planting opportunity, rebuilding lives

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Breezes flutter the sheer fabric hanging in the doorway of Gladys Joseph’s new home in Cabaret, 24 miles outside Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. There’s room in the yard for her children to play. And, for the first time since she was sent to Haiti’s capital city as a child, she’s able to have a garden — corn, beans, manioc and okra.

Five years after a devastating earthquake tore across Port-au-Prince . . .

Marla Pierson Lester | Mennonite Central Committee

January 12, 2015

Teaching English leads to deeper discussions in China

Tao’s sheepish demeanor as he approached teacher Kelly McPhail revealed why he and his classmates were nervous about their English grades: They hadn’t been speaking much

Wil LaVeist | Mennonite Mission Network

September 29, 2014

I am rich

We got our income taxes done last week. Let me tell you, I was stunned by the final number — it was staggeringly low. We fall way,

Kathleen Quiring

June 3, 2014

Children returning to Manitoba Old Order community

An Old Order Mennonite community in Manitoba has welcomed back half of its children who were removed by social workers in June 2013 due to

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

May 26, 2014

Canadian scholar studies how education preserves Old Colony Mennonite culture

It’s hard to understand Canada’s Old Colony Mennonites without first understanding their views on education. In 1922 about 8,000 Old Colony Mennonites left Canada for Mexico

Kelli Yoder

February 17, 2014

Teaching as mission jumpstarts education careers

LANCASTER, Pa. — While some young adults trained in education struggle to find work as teachers, Rebecca Martin and Malinda Stoner found experience teaching in

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

February 3, 2014

New Bible institute building empowers community education

After seven years of offering classes in churches, the Toba-Qom Bible Institute in Castelli, Argentina, will soon have its own space. Supported by Mennonite Mission Network,

Sara Alvarez Waugh | Mennonite Mission Network

January 6, 2014