“She tells us we’re doing the colors all wrong,” said quilter Margrit Amstutz . . .
2014 started with a mild winter and early spring. Precipitation that would have fallen during a typical winter came all at once in May, bringing three months’ worth of rain in just three days.
Violence and armed conflicts have forced hundreds of thousands of people to seek safety in neighboring countries and within Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and wounded.
“Every person has to decide how to respond,” said . . .
A projected 3.3 million francs are needed to make Trachselwald castle viable as a museum. (The franc and U.S. dollar are roughly equal.) The castle held Anabaptists — considered heretics at the time — between the 16th and . . .
Two Mennonite churches were only 10 miles apart, but concrete, guards, guns, politics, bureaucracy and the Cold War stood between them for 28 years until the Berlin Wall opened Nov. 9, 1989.
Krueger preached a sermon that recalled his experiences as pastor of the church in West Berlin and as liaison to the East Berlin church pastored by Knuth Hansen on Schwedter Street.
Hanspeter Jecker, who teaches at the Mennonite seminary and is president of the Swiss Society for Anabaptist History, rediscovered the farm of Bendicht Schrag, a pioneer of the Swiss Anabaptist . . .
