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Goshen students witness hope in Palestine

GOSHEN, Ind. — When Sam Carlson walked to work in the morning, he stepped over hundreds of tear gas canisters, stun grenades and smoke bombs. Sometimes he could feel tear gas lingering in the air.

Carlson, a junior peace, justice and conflict studies major at Goshen College, served at the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center (Wi’am) in Bethlehem this summer.

Kate Yoder | Goshen College

August 18, 2014

Japanese pastor moved by MB history program

WINNIPEG, Man. — As a pastor of a Mennonite Brethren church in Japan, Yoshio Fujii had limited knowledge of the church’s Anabaptist roots. To learn

Gladys Terichow

August 18, 2014

A prayerful response to Ferguson

Asked why I raise my hands, I say a number of things: “I lift them to praise God for redeeming me.” My hands are holy

Osheta Moore

August 15, 2014

Why I’m fundraising my salary as a pastor

I’ve received a lot of questions and concerns about why my church would create a staff position they cannot pay for. I’m assuming that means

Jennifer Harris Dault

August 13, 2014

Journey of discovery

GOESSEL, Kan. — A traveler left Rocky Ford, Colo., this spring, seeking a destination in Kansas to complete a journey that has spanned nearly half a century.

John Stiles parked his one-man caravan at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church in late July. It had previously occupied a corner of a parking lot 25 miles away near Inman at Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, a link in an Anabaptist oasis chain stretching across the Great Plains.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

August 12, 2014

Network seeks to mobilize Israel-Palestine peacemaking

Mennonites have been building relationships in Israel-Palestine longer than many other Christian denominations but lack the churchwide efforts to work for peace in the Middle

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

August 12, 2014

Will there ever be another Brethren in Christ hymnal?

Earlier this year, while teaching a course on Brethren in Christ history and theology at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa., I worked with Dr. Dwight Thomas

Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas

August 8, 2014

Give it a rest!

I say every summer, “this summer is going to be more relaxed than last summer.” And every summer it’s just not. It’s not that the

Amy Yoder McGloughlin

August 7, 2014

Three churches leave Virginia Conference

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Three congregations formally left Mennonite Church USA’s Virginia Conference July 25 when delegates at the annual assembly passed motions to release them.

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

August 4, 2014

Between horizons

“It’s time to study sexuality” might not be everyone’s favorite thing to hear in church. But it could be what Mennonite Church USA needs. And

Paul Schrag

August 4, 2014