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No peace apart from justice

Today is the International Day of Peace. Yesterday was recognized in many faith communities as Peace Sunday, and I had the privilege of delivering the sermon

Amanda Arbour

September 21, 2015

Are Quakers allowed to speak in tongues?

The first time I heard someone speak in tongues was at the World Gathering of Young Friends, an international Quaker gathering held in 2005, in

Micah Bales

September 17, 2015

Myron Augsburger and the Mennonite History of the CCCU

This is the last of a two-part blog series on the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities as they decide on a course of action after two Mennonite colleges

Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas

September 16, 2015

Mennonites, evangelicals and the sexuality debate in Christian higher education

This is the first of a two-part blog series on the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities as they decide on a course of action after two Mennonite

Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas

September 15, 2015

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — Thi Nguyen was attending a Vietnamese Mennonite church in Philadelphia when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. He wanted to help and was invited to travel to Bayou La Batre as a service worker for the Mennonite Central Committee.

Over the two years he served with MCC, he was a translator and an adviser for many Vietnamese people.

“I got attached to this place,” he said.

Susan Kim | Mennonite Disaster Service

September 14, 2015

Immortal horrors or everlasting splendors

Stories about artificial intelligence and robots can be good opportunities to explore what it means to be human. That’s the case in AMC’s Humans, a

Carmen Andres

September 14, 2015

A father’s life, from a daughter’s view

“I never saw my father saunter,” says Katie Funk Wiebe as she introduces the hero of her latest book — her father, Jacob J. (Jake)

Shirley Hershey Showalter

September 14, 2015

Profile surveys world’s Anabaptists

Sociological surveys may be uncommon evangelistic tools, but Damien Pelende of the Democratic Republic of Congo found the Global Anabaptist Profile survey drew new people to his church.

The two-year project — a joint initiative of Mennonite World Conference and the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism at Goshen (Ind.) College — profiled the demographics, beliefs and practices of 24 church conferences . . .

Elizabeth Miller | Goshen College

September 14, 2015

Political opposites

As Donald Trump surged to the front of the Republican presidential field, Jimmy Carter announced he was battling cancer. The soft-spoken former president and the

Paul Schrag

September 14, 2015

Pacifist policing and proactive discipleship

Felix Manz needs no introduction. Nearly 500 years after he was martyred in Zurich, his legacy is arguably the most enduring in Anabaptist/Mennonite history. Milton

Rich Preheim

September 14, 2015