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How to celebrate 500 years

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mennonite World Conference held its first assembly in 1925, which was the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the Anabaptist movement. With

Gordon Houser | For Meetinghouse

July 25, 2015

Assembly called to wrestle with community, autonomy

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Each person is never alone. They must live in community. Yet each also craves independence and autonomy.

Citing Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis 32, Wieteke van der Molen told Mennonite World Conference assembly attendees July 24 that since the interests of the group will always collide with those of the individual, each person must wrestle with friction and frustration.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 25, 2015

Historians address Nazi influence on Mennonites at MWC assembly

HARRISBURG, Pa. — An influential chapter of 20th-century German Mennonite history that has been predominantly either romanticized or glossed over received significant attention in back-to-back

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 24, 2015

Ordeal steels Ukrainian’s faith, resolve

When war broke out in eastern Ukraine, Vlad Makhovskiy decided he could not just sit home and watch what was happening. He would help.

This choice would lead to his kidnapping.

Makhovskiy, who runs a small business copying keys and fixing shoes, is one of many committed volunteers working with the Mennonite Central Committee . . .

Meghan Mast | Mennonite Central Committee

June 8, 2015

Julian of Norwich’s great claim

Many of us are all too aware of the brokenness, insecurities, limitations and inadequacies in us and around us. When the women of my congregation

Rachel DeMara Sensenig

May 5, 2015

Martyrdom and trampling on Christ

In 2012, I reached a landmark moment in my journey into the Mennonite world, the event that marks one’s transition from being a Christian who dabbles

Timothy Colegrove

April 7, 2015

Rare Russian Mennonite photos to see new life

A collection of photos depicting Mennonite life in Southern Russia (present-day Ukraine) at the turn of the 20th century — a pinnacle quickly wiped out by the Bolshevik Revolution — should find its way back to the printed page early next year.

John Rempel of Toronto and Lauren Friesen of Chicago are working to produce a reprint of Forever Summer, Forever Sunday, featuring 93 photographs by Rempel’s grandfather, Peter Gerhard Rempel.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

April 6, 2015

California churches assist with Ukrainian relief

Mennonite Brethren in Fresno, Calif., are responding to conflict and suffering in Ukraine by partnering with Ukrainian MB congregations for ministry in the country’s war zone.

Conversations between Mountain View Community Church Pastor Fred Leonard and MB Mission Europe director Johann . . .

MB Mission

April 6, 2015

The things we hide from others

Like many, I’ve been following the story of the Andreas Lubitz, the Germanwings pilot who deliberately crashed the plane he was co-piloting from Barcelona to

Ryan Dueck

March 30, 2015

Syrian in Switzerland quilts for homeland

MUTTENZ, Switzerland — There is a difference of opinion when it comes to color choice in the quilting group at Brügg Mennonite Church. For Gulschin Ibrahim, the Swiss tendency to choose similar tones and colors is a bit boring. In Syria, where Ibrahim is from, people like brighter shades, and more of them.

“She tells us we’re doing the colors all wrong,” said quilter Margrit Amstutz . . .

Emily Loewen | Mennonite Central Committee

March 16, 2015