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Autumn needs All Saints Day

While the family photos of friends and their children in some really terrific All Hallows Eve costumes in my Facebook news feed are a fading

Malinda Elizabeth Berry

November 10, 2015

Unite for peace

Pursuant to the “Faithful Witness Amid Endless War” resolution adopted by the Mennonite Church USA delegates in Kansas City last summer, isn’t now the time

Letters

November 10, 2015

Purer but weaker

A purity parable: Alloys are stronger than pure metals. Pure metals have regular layers of atoms that slide over one another easily. In alloys, the

Letters

November 10, 2015

Preoccupied with sex

Should a historian one day evaluate the major theme dominating the church during our time, would he or she not say we were preoccupied by

Letters

November 10, 2015

Our history is absorbed into our whiteness

In the beginning of his acclaimed book Between You and Me, written as a letter to his adolescent son, Ta-Nehisi Coates wonders how Mennonites came

Stephen Kriss

November 10, 2015

USA and Canada — alike yet different

In many ways, Americans and Canadians are so much alike. We watch the same movies and TV, read the same books, watch the same sports,

John Longhurst

November 10, 2015

Caring for self is a must

In some circles, the term “self-care” is so overused as to elicit groans. In other places, the most likely response is, “What’s that?” In the

Celeste Kennel-Shank

November 10, 2015

Working at harmony across racial divides

Freedom of expression is a wonderful gift we have in this country and Canada as well (a tip ‘o the hat to my Canadian followers).

Melodie M. Davis

November 10, 2015

MCC learning tour explores mass incarceration

EPHRATA, Pa. — Sixteen participants in Mennonite Central Committee’s Pipeline to Prison learning tour journeyed through Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system, learning about law enforcement, sentencing, incarceration and re-entry.

Rachel Sommer | Mennonite Central Committee

November 9, 2015

Book review: ‘A Living Alternative’

Some of the brightest new voices in the Anabaptist tradition fill a recent anthology, A Living Alternative: Anabaptist Christianity in a Post-Christendom World. Twenty contributors offer

Melodie M. Davis

November 9, 2015