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The Hutterite way to be plain

Linda Maendel is the first Hutterite to write and illustrate a children’s book. She blogs, writes news articles and teaches school. Hutterite Diaries is one

Katie Funk Wiebe

August 3, 2015

Young adults seek to impact the world by sharing gifts

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Mennonite World Conference Global Youth Summit concluded July 19 with a strong desire to impact the world by sharing young adults’ gifts.

Under the theme “Called to Share: My Gifts, Our Gifts,” 42 delegates and more than 400 participants discussed . . .

Elina Ciptadi-Perkins | Mennonite World Conference

August 3, 2015

The law is not enough

One of the reasons I love comic book stories is because I often see something of our own story in them. Daredevil is a Netflix

Carmen Andres

August 3, 2015

‘MB Herald’ gets a reprieve

The shutdown of Mennonite Brethren Herald has been put on hold, but it is unclear what the future holds for the Canadian Conference of Mennonite

Mennonite World Review staff

August 3, 2015

My people

Last year I left Mennonite Church USA. I left not because of negative reasons, but rather I was called by a congregation within the Church of

Alan Stucky

August 3, 2015

Rock on, and repent

It might have been providential that U.S. Anabaptists got to host the Mennonite World Conference assembly for the first time in 38 years. While conflict

Paul Schrag

August 3, 2015

The children are watching

Young people got a chance to stand before the main microphone every day at the Mennonite World Conference assembly, and they made the most of

Tim Huber

August 3, 2015

Godlike authority

Only a person who pretends God is not the ruler over all things can claim the right to redefine marriage. It would seem as though

Letters

August 3, 2015

MWC General Council fosters interdependence

HARRISBURG, Pa. — In four days of meetings just prior to the July 21-26 Mennonite World Conference assembly, the General Council took additional steps in the journey toward interdependence in the global communion.

Ron Rempel | Mennonite World Conference

August 3, 2015

Coming to a gathering space at assembly

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Roland Yoder presided over what he called “an innocent form of community graffiti” as he watched the hub of activity around the three-dimensional sculpture of the Mennonite World Conference logo he designed for the Global Church Village.

Village visitors were invited to put their thumbprints on the wooden sculpture in the village square. By July 25, the last day of the assembly, the white spokes . . .

Connie Faber | For Meetinghouse

August 3, 2015