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Testimony: Sunday school shines

MennoMedia’s new Shine Sunday school curriculum for children is praiseworthy: easy to plan, easy to teach and committed to deep and simple truths that stick

Esther Kratzer Koontz

April 13, 2015

Simple is peaceful

When would it be right for an enemy nation to murder your family? If never, how can it be right for the U.S. to murder

Rachel Stella

April 13, 2015

Canadian MB response to same-sex wedding: it wasn’t us

Canadian Mennonite Brethren leaders needed to clear up confusion about whether their denomination was involved in a same-sex wedding. Responding to numerous inquiries, the leaders,

Mennonite World Review staff

April 13, 2015

A funny thing happened on the way to the thrift store

Not really. Nothing all that funny actually happens on the way to the thrift store. Sometimes something mildly amusing might happen and then the little

Sherri Klassen

April 10, 2015

When Christians love their religion more than their God

Instead of promoting Christ, Christians often promote . . . their theology their culture their values their creeds their traditions their spiritual practices their specific type

Stephen Mattson

April 9, 2015

Martyrdom and trampling on Christ

In 2012, I reached a landmark moment in my journey into the Mennonite world, the event that marks one’s transition from being a Christian who dabbles

Timothy Colegrove

April 7, 2015

Rare Russian Mennonite photos to see new life

A collection of photos depicting Mennonite life in Southern Russia (present-day Ukraine) at the turn of the 20th century — a pinnacle quickly wiped out by the Bolshevik Revolution — should find its way back to the printed page early next year.

John Rempel of Toronto and Lauren Friesen of Chicago are working to produce a reprint of Forever Summer, Forever Sunday, featuring 93 photographs by Rempel’s grandfather, Peter Gerhard Rempel.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

April 6, 2015

California churches assist with Ukrainian relief

Mennonite Brethren in Fresno, Calif., are responding to conflict and suffering in Ukraine by partnering with Ukrainian MB congregations for ministry in the country’s war zone.

Conversations between Mountain View Community Church Pastor Fred Leonard and MB Mission Europe director Johann . . .

MB Mission

April 6, 2015

The necessity of finishing

This is from a Lenten series on the seven last words of Jesus. The following is on the sixth word, John 19:30. “It is finished.”

Meghan Good

March 31, 2015

The things we hide from others

Like many, I’ve been following the story of the Andreas Lubitz, the Germanwings pilot who deliberately crashed the plane he was co-piloting from Barcelona to

Ryan Dueck

March 30, 2015