Mennonite World Conference’s COVID-19 inter-agency task force has approved 21 relief proposals.
How could Christians celebrate the mutilation of civilians and purported enemies abroad and embrace militarized nationalism while proclaiming Jesus as Lord?
Spring 2020 marked the first graduation for seven students in Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) and Goshen (Indiana) College’s joint Doctor of Nursing Practice program.
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7.27.2020
A total way of life: Our journeys from Evangelicalism to Anabaptism
Photo: Drew J. Strait addresses incoming students at the Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana. Photo by Peter Ringenberg This article comes from the August issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Why I am an Anabaptist.” Read more reflections here or subscribe here to receive more original features in your inbox […]
7.27.2020
Liberation, lineage and village: Why I am an Anabaptist
Photo: The author (right) with her mother, Karen Diener Thompson (left) and her grandmother Carrie Yoder Diener. Photo provided by the author This article comes from the August issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Why I am an Anabaptist.” Read more reflections here or subscribe here to receive more original features in your inbox each month. The three major […]
7.6.2020
How can we keep from singing?
This is a web-exclusive article on the theme “Music and worship.” For more stories on this theme, see the July issue of The Mennonite. “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and there we wept.” —Psalm 137:1 The words of Psalm 137 have scrolled through my mind, almost constantly, over the past weeks. I […]
6.29.2020
This far by faith: Music and worship in a diverse congregation
Photo: The Lee Heights Community Church gospel choir. Photo provided by the author This article comes from the July issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Music and worship.” Read more reflections here or subscribe here to receive more original features in your inbox each month. As a young person growing up at Lee Heights Community Church in Cleveland, I […]
6.29.2020
A hard, holy work: The making of ‘Voices Together’
Photo: Participants gather at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center in January 2019 in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, for an annual Music and Worship Leaders Retreat. In 2017, longtime organizer Ken Nafziger handed leadership over to the committee developing Voices Together. Photo by Heike Martin This article comes from the July issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Music and […]
6.15.2020
Why we are still here
Photo: QP, Boston and Rudy. Photo provided by Ripple Community, Inc. This article comes from the June issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Community in the face of COVID-19.” Read more reflections here or subscribe here to receive more original features in your inbox each month. Like many U.S. communities, Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been hit hard by the COVID-19 […]
7.20.2020
Where true strength lies
Forgiveness is the ability to relinquish the pervasive bitterness of soul-binding hatred in order to absolve the spirit. In many ways, it is the death of the ego. In order to forgive, we must look beyond ourselves. Despite humanity being the creation of a perfect, all-knowing, all-encompassing God, we are imperfect and flawed. Tapping into […]
7.13.2020
The dismantling of Confederate monuments and what Scripture shows us
“You shall not make for yourself an image [carved form wood or stone] or any likeness [of anything] that is in the sky above or on the earth below or that is in the waters underneath the earth; you shall not bow down to them and you shall nor serve them because I, the Lord […]
5.18.2020
A call to action amid COVID-19
God is working — even in chaos. In a matter of months, many of the corrupt systems that peacemakers and liberationists have been struggling and praying to change with limited successes have drastically slowed or come to a screeching halt. After raging fires in the Amazon and Australia, and ongoing worldwide protests for climate action, […]
5.4.2020
12 considerations as you prepare to reopen your church doors
As stay-at-home guidelines are eased and church doors and sanctuaries reopen, worship and church ministries will, undoubtedly, look different than before the coronavirus outbreak. And so it should — so that we continue to keep ourselves and our faith communities safe and healthy. But that means pastors and church leaders should prepare for what the […]
4.13.2020
Religious freedom to spread deadly disease
This year’s Easter celebrations have been disrupted by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Here in Kansas, we have been drawn into a debate about the meaning and practice of gathering for religious worship. Last Tuesday, April 7, the Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, issued an executive order that limited religious gatherings to 10 people. On Wednesday, a […]
4.13.2020
Friendship rather than feuding
Photo: Issa Sawadogo and Siaka Traoré visit with one of Issa’s friends, Diallo. Photo courtesy of Mennonite Mission Network. As chair of Mennonite World Conference Deacons Commission, I and three others traveled to Hong Kong to stand in solidarity with our Mennonite brothers and sisters. After worshiping with Agape Mennonite Church on Dec. 1, 2019, […]
