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The beginning of the end

We have, rather erroneously, developed this notion that the Christian life is supposed to be safe and easy. We desire comfort and we think that

Justin Hiebert

April 27, 2015

Prayer by prayer, pastor walks across Ohio for Lent

Pastor Chet Miller-Eshleman has a bad back and bum knees from a scooter cycle accident. But that is not keeping him from walking 300 miles

Laurie Oswald Robinson | For Mennonite World Review

March 30, 2015

Rethinking the mission trip

During the recent 40th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live, they did some looking back. Some of my favorite sketches featured Jake and Elwood, the Blues Brothers. The

Glenn Balzer

February 25, 2015

EMM workers return to West Africa after Ebola crisis

SALUNGA, Pa. — Four and a half months after leaving West Africa because of safety concerns connected to the Ebola crisis, a team of workers

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

February 16, 2015

100,000,000 books sold

Choice Books added contact information to its books, sold on small stands in stores across the country, letters began pouring in.

Simon Schrock, executive director of the largest distributor of Choice Books, located in Manassas, Va., said each letter that comes into his office is saved, and staff try to respond to all of them. There are 27 boxes full.

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

February 16, 2015

What does ‘missional’ mean, anyway?

"Missional" is a strange new word I, and others in Houston, use a lot these days. But what do we mean when we say “missional”? For

Marty Troyer

January 6, 2015

The world doesn’t need the early church

If only we could return to the early church, then we’d have it made. This statement, in one form or another, is one that I

Justin Hiebert

December 8, 2014

‘Regulation garb’ and the gospel

In February 1959, Chester Wenger and fellow missionaries in Ethiopia — wearing business suits and neckties — met a delegation of Lancaster Mennonite Conference leaders

John E. Sharp

November 24, 2014

EMM sends its first U.S. YES team in a decade

BALTIMORE — This fall Eastern Mennonite Missions sent its first U.S.-based YES team in 10 years. The team, made up of four young adults between

Chris Fretz | Eastern Mennonite Missions

November 24, 2014

Two radical proposals

Next year’s assembly in Harrisburg, Pa., will mark an important 40th anniversary for Mennonite World Conference. It was four decades ago in July 1975 that

R. Showalter

November 10, 2014