There will be no Christmas in Bethlehem this year. At least not any large festivities. The tree in Manger Square will not be decorated. In one church nativity, the baby Jesus lies in a pile of rubble.
There will be no Christmas in Bethlehem this year. At least not any large festivities. The tree in Manger Square will not be decorated. In one church nativity, the baby Jesus lies in a pile of rubble.
Hesston College dedicated a monument acknowledging “shortcomings and errors” and “acts of violence that have broken the bonds of trust in our community” Dec. 4, more than a year and a half after the Healing Circle was constructed on campus.
Cam Stuart has been appointed national director of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.
With a baseball nerd’s attention to detail, Mark Zimmerman spins a “what if?” story: What might happen if an Amish man played Major League Baseball? While sportswriter Tim Brown chronicles Erik Kratz’s real-life career.
Over 800 people from 250 congregations across Canada and the U.S. met online Nov. 28 to talk about ways to respond together to the war in Gaza and Palestine.
The Center for Community Justice in Elkhart, Ind, honored Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, Mennonite Church USA denominational minister for Peace and Justice, for her work in restorative justice at an Oct. 21 event celebrating the 45th anniversary of its Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program, the first restorative justice program of its kind in the U.S.
Plough Publishing House and the Bruderhof are bringing the Radical Reformation to a new format with a three-volume graphic novel series about young people standing up for their convictions against powerful political and religious leaders.
