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What we mean when we say we want Christian unity

I’ve been reading Andy Crouch’s Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power for about four months now and I’m barely a third of the way

Chris Gehrz

August 28, 2015

Fitting in

A few years ago, I was out for a walk with my son and we happened upon a little playground we’d never visited before. He

Julia Roller

August 27, 2015

Colleges’ decisions shake up their peers

Decisions by two Mennonite Church USA colleges to expand their nondiscrimination policies to include employees in same-sex marriages have caused a stir in Christian higher education.

Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

August 27, 2015

Are Quakers already dead?

We Quakers think a lot about our own demise. I’ve lost count of how many events, conferences, books and lectures have essentially centered around the

Micah Bales

August 26, 2015

God is not sad

A recent Christian trend was to pray something similar to, "Lord, let my heart break for the things that break your heart." It was usually a prayer

Austin Channing Brown

August 25, 2015

Could Princeton’s Farminary change the culture of theological education?

PRINCETON, N.J. — Eight years ago, Nathan Stucky left a Kansas farm to study youth ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. At the time, he never

Sarah Bixler | For Mennonite World Review

August 24, 2015

God’s presence in a new reality of loss

Recently a violent storm hit my life, ripping through my heart and shaking the foundation of my faith, when my husband Joel, suddenly and unexpectedly

Nancy Kauffmann

August 24, 2015

MCC worker returns to Germany 60 years after service

Anne Buller of Bluffton, Ohio, returned this summer to her old neighborhood in Germany to celebrate a ministry she started 66 years ago but only recently learned was still operating.

Buller and her late husband, Harold, traveled to Berlin in 1948 with Mennonite Central Committee. The newlyweds established a neighborhood community center before moving on to other MCC work in Europe. For one reason or another, they never followed up . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

August 24, 2015

Brethren show solidarity with church in Nigeria

TAMPA, Fla. — Delegates at the Church of the Brethren’s annual conference received an update about deadly challenges facing the denomination’s sister church in Nigeria.

Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) has been facing the assault of violent extremist Islamist group Boko Haram for years.

On July 13, EYN President Samuel Dali described the depth of the crisis . . .

Frances Townsend | Church of the Brethren

August 24, 2015

Being a troubled nonviolent resister

I want to be a nonviolent resister because as a Red Letter Christian I am committed to taking seriously what Jesus said in the Sermon

Tony Campolo

August 21, 2015