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Book review: ‘Education with the Grain of the Universe’

Over the past several decades, one remarkable initiative in Mennonite higher education has been in the new academic field of peace and conflict studies. Mennonite

James C. Juhnke

August 27, 2018

Kansas congregation celebrates building expansion

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Anne Bailey had waited for years for the moment on Aug. 12 when Peace Mennonite Church dedicated its expanded building, filling worshipers with goose-bump awe over the lively acoustics.

Laurie Oswald Robinson | For Mennonite World Review

August 27, 2018

An open table?

Regarding the meaning of communion (“What’s Our Inclusion Ritual?,” July 30), I understand and appreciate John D. Rempel’s concern for theological “originalism,” but when individuals

Letters

August 27, 2018

Absolute on abortion

Hillary Watson (Column, July 30) challenges Mennonites to ask, “Who are we and who do we want to be in the abortion debate?” Mennonites have

Letters

August 27, 2018

No space for force

The flaming, flying wheel came out of the sky to whisk Ezekiel off on a grand journey. The center of the fire looked like glowing

Tim Huber

August 27, 2018

Bible: Go ahead, mess with perfection

In the beginning the world was a blank canvas. Then God flipped on the studio lights, stepped up to the easel and threw God’s self

Meghan Good

August 27, 2018

Showalter: New England gospel

Authentic movements to Jesus happen all over the globe. From North America, though, sometimes it seems they’re all “out there” in Africa, Asia or Latin

Richard Showalter

August 27, 2018

Now, no exceptions

Pope Francis’ declaration that the Catholic Church opposes the death penalty in all cases, without exceptions, marks a historic milestone in the Christian witness for

Paul Schrag

August 27, 2018

Miller: You have faith enough to pray

A book called Prayer, by Ole Hallesby — a Norwegian Christian who wrote in the early 1900s — changed my understanding of that basic-to-our-humanity, up-reaching

Lucinda J. Kinsinger

August 27, 2018

A loss for all

A sign of the times, outside Goshen, Ind. The stories in Paul Schrag’s editorial (“Mysterious Initials,” Aug. 13) also represent a loss for progressive Mennonites.

Letters

August 27, 2018