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Finding the Spirit in anxious times

Author Peter Steinke suggests Old Testament understandings of salvation are connected to openness rather than constricting. Steinke writes about how healthy communities behave in times

Stephen Kriss

September 28, 2015

Differences we tolerate

Chicago’s Magnificent Mile and State Street attract people from around the world for pleasure shopping. Stores selling designer shoes, trendy clothes, high-end accessories and more

Celeste Kennel-Shank

September 28, 2015

Some questions about heaven

Heaven, what used to be the primary motivator for many to become a Christian, or be a faithful Christian, has fallen on hard times. I

Scot McKnight

September 28, 2015

Are Californians different?

This survey of Mennonite migrations and developments in California from 1850 to 1975 focuses on three groups — the Mennonite Brethren, the General Conference Mennonites

Rachel Waltner Goossen

September 28, 2015

Opinion: Jude’s warnings come true

“Read the Book of Jude.” That was the message I received nearly nine months ago in a prophetic dream about Mennonite Church Canada’s first same-sex

Steve Hoeppner

September 28, 2015

All lives (don’t) matter

Some political slogans have a long shelf life, but some sink from their own dead weight. There is probably nothing more obvious from the headlines

Morf Morford

September 25, 2015

Defining the other and the Syrian refugee crisis

Early in the Syrian refugee crisis, I was asked by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada to be part of a delegation meeting with Chris Alexander,

Willard Metzger

September 24, 2015

Of whiskey priests and ragamuffins

It was author Graham Green who popularized the idea of the whiskey priest, a flawed member of the clergy who, despite failings, still manages to

John Longhurst

September 23, 2015

EMU, Goshen leave Christian college association

Two Mennonite colleges have withdrawn from a Christian college association to avoid causing division over their openness to hiring married gay and lesbian faculty.

The presidents of Goshen (Ind.) College and . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

September 21, 2015

Opening a window of hope amid Syrian war

Roseangela Jarjour talks daily with pastors in Syria working for peace and providing a reason for Syrians who stay to hope, even as they hear bombs drop around them.

“The priority is really to bring peace into our country, so we keep our people in our country,” Jarjour said during a Mennonite Central Committee video press conference Sept. 17.

She is a Syrian who works for an MCC . . .

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

September 21, 2015