Nearly 25 years ago, in the Ministry Inquiry Program at Goshen College, I met with a pastor as a potential intern. The first thing he said was: “The way we do church in North America doesn’t work.”
Jacob A. Schowalter, a Kansas Mennonite farmer, spent little on his own comforts but gave generously to charitable causes. Few could guess by his simple way of life that he was a man of significant means.
Artificial intelligence is one of the most transformative technologies humanity has ever developed. AI offers blessings and burdens that can foster peace and democracy or fuel violence, inequality, polarization and authoritarianism. Religious ethics have something to offer.
Mennonite Men has welcomed Jon Zirkle as co-director of U.S. Mennonite Men with Steve Thomas.