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Subversive women in Judean hills

Fleeing violence in her native Honduras, Maria made her way through Guatemala and Mexico to Indiana and our congregation in Elkhart. Now she daily awaits

J. Nelson Kraybill

July 18, 2016

Former Church of the Brethren leader takes WCC post

The former general secretary of the Church of the Brethren in the United States is taking on a new global role. Stanley Noffsinger became director of the World Council of Churches July 1. The ecumenical body counts approximately 550 million members of 345 member churches.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 18, 2016

Extremists for Peace?

Ben Wideman is campus pastor for 3rd Way Collective at Penn State University and blogs for The Mennonite. On Sunday, July 10th, four historic peace

Ben Wideman

July 12, 2016

Still hoping, trusting

Early in my teen years, I asked myself if I really wanted to belong to the Mennonite church or if I was doing it out

Hillary Watson

July 4, 2016

To exit or remain? The July 4, 1776, question

In 1776 my great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Christian Yoder, Jr., moved his family by team and wagon from Berks County, Pa., to the far western frontier of

Harvey Yoder

July 4, 2016

Making trouble

During a recent trip to the Netherlands for work, I had the opportunity to stop by the Singelkerk in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it

Robert Martin

July 1, 2016

Killing our guns

It was late Saturday night, or Pentecost-Eve (May 14) as I like to call it. All week I had been on the lookout for a

Ruth Harder

June 28, 2016

When violence is a good thing

I don’t always understand our world. It’s a tough, complicated mess of lives and loves, fears and failures. And core to our world and news

Marty Troyer

June 22, 2016

A fool’s errand

It is ironic that in response to a Catholic statement renouncing the “just war” ethic, a Mennonite editorial declares its benefits (“Can War Be Just?,”

Letters

June 6, 2016