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NYC church partners for highly efficient apartments

A New York City church has taken an active role in bringing a passive solution to Brooklyn housing needs. Iglesia Menonita Unida De Avivamienta (United

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

May 12, 2014

Canadian man guilty of drug trafficking

An Alberta Mennonite has been sentenced after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine from Mexico into Canada. Jacob Fehr of Peace River, Alta., grew up

Mennonite World Review staff

May 12, 2014

Proximity doesn’t equal peace

Lately, I've found myself working more and more with adults who are interested in exploring conversations about race, justice and reconciliation. It is not uncommon

Austin Channing Brown

May 8, 2014

Pitching the perfect sermon

Pitching to the boys on my son’s coach-pitch baseball team in Houston is nerve wracking. There’s little in my week I concentrate more on or expect perfection

Marty Troyer

May 7, 2014

Imagining ‘an alternative to the sword’

During the course I'm teaching at Messiah College, Historical Study of Peace, we’ve focused intently on American peace movements and tracked two different forms of peace

Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas

May 6, 2014

From Paraguay to Goshen, faith in many forms

GOSHEN, Ind. — Across 13 countries and many cultural barriers, three Goshen College graduates found hospitality among different South and Central American Anabaptist groups during their 11-month, 10,000-mile bicycle journey from Paraguay to Goshen.

Brian Yoder Schlabach | Goshen College

May 5, 2014

Nobel Laureate urges EMU graduates to take action

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee called 467 members of Eastern Mennonite University’s graduating class to take action in the present rather than be paralyzed by uncertainty about their future.

“Begin with what you have,” she said April 27, using “your little gift to change the world.”

Gbowee referred with pride in her commencement speech to being a graduate of EMU . . .

Bonnie Price Lofton | Eastern Mennonite University

May 5, 2014

MDS ends Texas fire response

BASTROP, Texas — Mennonite Disaster Service has ended its project in Bastrop County after three fall and winter seasons of work in the central Texas

Carl Dube, Barbara Weaver | Mennonite Disaster Service

April 28, 2014

Could conformity be enforced?

The Mennonite Church, after being immersed in turmoil for decades, was barreling toward a potentially catastrophic showdown. With implications for unity, discipline, polity, identity and

Rich Preheim

April 28, 2014

Florida school becomes part of a Global Family

SARASOTA, Fla. — No more water bottles in class, Bible teacher Don Fry told the 10th-graders in his classroom at Sarasota Christian School.

Looking confused, students pulled water bottles from their backpacks and put them on the table.

School administrators, Fry said, had decided water bottles were too disruptive. From now on students could use the water fountain in the gym between classes and drink at lunch.

Linda Espenshade | Mennonite Central Committee

April 28, 2014