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Arms, jobs, madness

Should an American who travels to a Muslim country with the intention of selling them deadly weapons be allowed to return? In Riyadh on May

Letters

June 5, 2017

Memory of Kreider

Early in my teaching sabbatical in England in the mid-1980s, I walked with Alan Kreider (“Kreider Lit Anabaptist Fire in U.K.,” May 22) along a

Letters

June 5, 2017

Separatists sign up

A generation after Old Colony Mennonites in Canada followed the promise of less government interference to Mexico, local pharmacy operator Walter Schmiedehaus detailed colony culture

Tim Huber

June 5, 2017

True or false? ‘If you’ve had an easy life, don’t try to help’

“A 20-some kid barely out of seminary shouldn’t presume to counsel a father dealing with his son’s fatal car crash.” “A happily married woman with

Tabitha Driver

June 1, 2017

The people we admire

I was in Germany last week visiting friends and celebrating my brother’s completion of his PhD. I consequently spent a lot of time on trains

Ryan Dueck

May 30, 2017

Jesus is ascended, not absent

Ascension Day. It’s the most obscure of all the major holy days on the Christian calendar. Coming 40 days after Easter, it commemorates the Ascension

Brian Zahnd

May 25, 2017

Goshen College announces candidate of choice for president

GOSHEN, Ind. — The Goshen College Presidential Search Committee announced alumna Rebecca Stoltzfus as its candidate of choice to become the college’s 18th president during an all-campus gathering May 24.

Goshen College | Mennonite Education Agency

May 24, 2017

Are we practical atheists?

There are people who say they don’t believe in God. In our own moments of faith and confidence, we look at them wonderingly and think

Lucinda J. Kinsinger

May 24, 2017

How to pray for your enemies

What does it mean to pray for our enemies? For the terrorist taking many lives in response to other grave wrongs, for the known or

April Yamasaki

May 23, 2017

Do you want to be made whole?

There are reasons why we are not whole. Sometimes the fault is not our own; sometimes our un-wholeness is a result of the choices of

Gert Slabach

May 22, 2017