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Good Friday with children

It’s difficult to know what to do with Good Friday when you have little children. I’m always a little itchy about skipping from Palm Sunday

Melissa Florer-Bixler

March 11, 2016

Thoughts on heaven and hell

This past week I was invited to lead a book discussion on The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. In this book Lewis explores the afterlife

Glenn Balzer

March 9, 2016

On learning how to be not-that-fashionable

There comes a moment in every female Mennonite’s life when she needs to take a stand and decide what it is that she wants to

Sherri Klassen

March 8, 2016

Syrian refugee in Canada: ‘I feel it’s my country now’

WINNIPEG, Man. — Though Yhya Al Kurdi doesn’t know much English yet, he enthusiasically says, “Hello, hello, hello!” to visitors to his apartment. It has been a long time since he has had a safe home to invite anyone into.

Emily Loewen | Mennonite Central Committee

March 7, 2016

Hesston casts out fear

Christian writer and activist Shane Claiborne came to Hesston, Kan., Feb. 19-21 to say that love casts out fear and that followers of Jesus should

Paul Schrag

March 7, 2016

Walking in the cloud

Tired, confused, afraid and powerless before evil. That’s the disciples on the mount of Jesus’ Transfiguration (Luke 9:28-43a). Have you been there? I have. Once,

Brad Roth

March 4, 2016

Unity — humanly defined or heaven-inspired?

I read with great interest Richard Showalter's "The Unity Jesus Meant" in the Feb. 15, 2016 issue of the Mennonite World Review. He writes: Though

Harvey Yoder

March 3, 2016

When Jesus calls a desperate mom a dog

Most Christians I know are uncomfortable with Jesus’ response to the mom in Mark 7:24 – 30. For those who don’t know the story, here

Michael Danner

March 2, 2016

The world’s most persecuted religion

There are two options when a member of any of the world’s major religions hears about persecution of its own members: strike back by persecuting

Scot McKnight

March 1, 2016