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Watson: In defense of football

For many of us, January’s cold snaps and post-holiday haze mark an important annual ritual: playoffs in the National Football League. It is an event

Hillary Watson

January 30, 2017

Won’t pay for war

Prophet Martin Luther King Jr. damned the Vietnam War with his most controversial speech on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated.

Letters

January 30, 2017

‘Come as you are’ — and meaning it

LANCASTER, Pa. — Raymond Gephart grew up in a family plagued by the abuse of drugs and alcohol. His two older sisters were put into foster care.

Dale D. Gehman | For Mennonite World Review

January 30, 2017

FPU selects president with international experience

FRESNO, Calif. — A candidate with administrative, fundraising and international experience has been chosen as the next President of Fresno Pacific University.

Fresno Pacific University

January 30, 2017

Shocking ordination

I am shocked and profoundly disturbed by the ordination of lesbian Theda Good at First Mennonite Church of Denver by Mountain States Mennonite Conference leaders

Letters

January 30, 2017

Bible: Problems birthing a new community

Our February lessons are a long way from delighting in God’s creation through the Psalms, as we did last month. Centuries have gone by, and

Reta Halteman Finger

January 30, 2017

Choose love first

The difference between a death that comes at the end of a long and full life, and one that interrupts things too soon, is subjective.

Tim Huber

January 30, 2017

Reformation at 500

Mennonites have claimed to be a “third-way” movement, neither Catholic nor Protestant. Yet we descend from the Protestant Reformation. Anabaptism emerged from the religious and

Paul Schrag

January 30, 2017

American civil religion on steroids

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then

Harvey Yoder

January 30, 2017

Andres: Netflixing the story

Friends of mine who are software developers told me about online video provider Netflix’s data collection, which not only tracks everything its users watch but

Carmen Andres

January 30, 2017