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Yoder-Short: Boasting of inferiority

“If you’d have known his grandma’s family, you’d understand his actions.” The conversation was making me uncomfortable. Then it happens again. A different family is

Jane Yoder-Short

September 25, 2017

What North Korea wants

Why is it so hard to find reports in the mainstream media that don’t reflect Washington’s biases and hostilities? Does the mainstream media sense its

Letters

September 25, 2017

War profiteers

Writer and activist Frank Joyce says, “The Ken Burns PBS series on Vietnam gives its corporate sponsors little to worry about.” That in itself should

Letters

September 25, 2017

Gifts without limits

There’s room for everyone on the spectrum of Mennonite beliefs about women in ministry. On the traditional side are conservative and plain groups who agree

Paul Schrag

September 25, 2017

Organizing MC USA

Reflecting recently at the funeral for Darrell Fast, who was moderator of the General Conference Mennonite Church when it was moving toward merger with the

Letters

September 25, 2017

Boundaries redrawn

Gerrymandering — drawing a political district’s boundaries to assure a political party’s hold — isn’t new. It celebrated its bicentennial a few years ago. Newspaper

Tim Huber

September 25, 2017

Showalter: The evangelists we need

In my young adulthood, evangelists were preachers who publicly called people to commitment to Christ. “If you are ready to invite Jesus to be your

Richard Showalter

September 25, 2017

Kehrberg: Eden’s flaws a perfect model

This earth is the garden of our Lord, and he walks in his garden in the cool of the day. — Jean Ritchie, “Now Is

Sarah Kehrberg

September 25, 2017