Most of the Mennonite Voluntary Service unit houses were quiet March 3-6, with locked doors and darkened windows. The San Francisco unit apartment, however, was fuller, louder and livelier than the pandemic had enabled it to be in years.
Most of the Mennonite Voluntary Service unit houses were quiet March 3-6, with locked doors and darkened windows. The San Francisco unit apartment, however, was fuller, louder and livelier than the pandemic had enabled it to be in years.
While Anabaptist theological education is offered around the world, it is largely absent from French-language theological programs. Le Centre de Formation à la Justice et à la Paix (CFJP, Justice and Peace Training Center) is changing that.
At the end of the first evening of “From Chaos to Shalom: Exploring Peace Theology Together,” emcees Andios Santoso and Joe Sawatzky struggled to wrap up the Zoom session. The concluding prayer had been spoken. But none of the nearly 100 attendees wanted to sign off quite yet.
Mennonite Mission Network has launched Stir Up Peace, a nine-episode educational video series on how nonviolent direct action can create change.
In the artisans’ courtyard at the Royal Palace of Abomey, Benin, where the king of Abomey still holds court, I admired the work of local artists — bronze figurines of roaring lions, appliqued maps of Africa, a weaver’s shuttle dancing back and forth.
