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The waste of love

I wake up with a dark hole of emptiness eating through my chest, and it takes me a second to realize why. My little girl

Rosina Schmucker

October 23, 2018

Watson: Questions about marijuana

This November, four states will vote on legalizing marijuana: Utah and Missouri for medical use and North Dakota and Michigan for adult recreational use. If

Hillary Watson

October 22, 2018

Trust not in division

From church divisions to political mudslinging, trust is in short supply. Mennonite Church USA’s Southeast Mennonite Conference voted Oct. 5-6 to leave the denomination. The

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

October 22, 2018

History: At war’s end, a last gasp of violence

One hundred years ago next month, on Nov. 11, 1918, an armistice brought World War I to an end, ceasing the four-year-old conflagration that resulted

Rich Preheim

October 22, 2018

King: Yays and High Fives

Sometimes it takes someone who is 2 (“and a half,” she stresses) to lead the way. For 40 years, starting in our 20s, weeks after

Michael A. King

October 22, 2018

598 is not enough

What are the chances that a Mennonite teenager today will go to a Mennonite Church USA college or university? Not that good, and much less

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

October 22, 2018

Book review: Warriors who renounced war

Three decades ago, Julie Putnam Hart sat in a peace lecture opposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars. Intrigued by the presenter’s

Steve Goering

October 22, 2018

Washington Witness: Today’s scapegoats

We have a long history in the United States of blaming immigrants — whether German, Irish, Catholic, Chinese or, more recently, Hispanic and Muslim —

Tammy Alexander

October 22, 2018

Southeast Conference withdraws

After a three-year discernment process, delegates of Southeast Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA have voted to leave the denomination.

Sheldon Good | The Mennonite

October 15, 2018

New Bethel president seeks harvest of learning

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — The Bethel College community celebrated the inauguration of Jonathan C. Gering as the college’s 15th president on Oct. 7 during Fall Festival.

Melanie Zuercher | Bethel College

October 15, 2018