The film’s textured, almost tactile, animation is combined with a soundtrack that blends folk music with sweeping orchestration to tell a story about unmerited grace — the idea that humans are saved not by their good deeds but by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

An Old Order Amish mother in Ohio accused of fatally throwing her 4-year-old son into a lake as an offering to God was found not guilty by reason of insanity March 3.

Powerful nations, time and again, fall for the allure of quick wars.

Churches deliver Mennonite Central Committee - MCC aid as hurricane worsens daily life’s routine hardships.

The story of the woman with a chronic hemorrhage, from Luke 8.

Raised in Iowa, Kristin T. Lee grew up attending her parents’ Asian immigrant evangelical church while being steeped in the white evangelical Christian culture of the Midwest.

War is dignity violation at its extreme. This is why violence can never lead to lasting positive change.

A living-room memory, a quiet elder and the temptation that never leaves the church.

Funding war has always been part of how systems of government work. Yet, unlike war, its counterpart peace has traditionally been grossly underfunded.

U.S. executive director Kevin King will retire by the end of the year.

"Ask the animals, and they will teach you," says Job in the Old Testament. The April issue of Anabaptist World explores what we learn from the sacred beings God created to share the Earth with us. subscribe.anabaptistworld.org/ANW/?f=extra...

Sanctified imagination isn’t just for artists. It’s needed in the public square.

We refuse to baptize aggression in the language of faith.

We invite all churches and Christians of the world, and all people of faith and good will, to join in praying for peace in the Middle East, and everywhere in our world where there is conflict and strife.

The question, says the pastor, isn’t whether venerating ancestors is acceptable but rather which ancestors we choose to elevate.

There is no need to be an apologist for the Iranian government. An Iranian graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding told me recently that the majority of Iranians do not support their government’s actions. Still, there is more to the story.

Americans know what a school massacre looks like. Do we care about this one?

Spiritual discipline isn’t a legalistic burden; it’s the exercise our souls need to stay fit. Here are five practices inspired by holy envy for this Lenten season.

Christians like to pour concrete around our beliefs, to defend them or to keep them still. What if, instead, we would see these convictions as wild terrain, wide-open landscapes of breathtaking beauty to discover and explore?

In celebration of Puerto Rico, try mofongo. Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish that combines the cuisines of the Taino native people, the Spanish people and the West African people who have been blending their languages, cultures and recipes for centuries in Puerto Rico.

Through months of shadowing colleagues, embracing grace for mistakes, and building confidence, MVSer Bella Kephart grew from feeling overwhelmed and "useless" to confidently guiding newer team members while finding deep fulfillment in small acts. Her blog: https://ow.ly/WecX50YoJZV

Talking about sex without shaming.

Simon of Cyrene went home that Friday evening with blood, not his own, on his shirt and splinters in his shoulder that his wife worked out with a needle while the children watched from the doorway.

Maybe, in that incredible moment of sudden knowing, her love for all of creation caused her heart at last to free itself from the confines of her chest, or to draw the whole world safe inside with it.

The singalong, the second such service held at the church this month, included movement and testimony as well as song and honored one congregant’s husband who was absent because he’d been detained.

None of our Christian friends showed up.

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It’s true, like dandelions thriving in the cracks and the margins, that God’s reign often takes root where the world least expects it, among the overlooked and displaced (hallelujah!).

In Southern California, 2025 was a year marked by fire and ICE. The Palisades fire got the most name recognition, but Runyon Canyon, Eaton Canyon and other fires broke out during the same dry windstorm.

The gods I served demanded blood. But I knew who killed the righteous man.

“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” These words from an African American spiritual are not about one’s physical location. They are about one’s social location.

A group of religious organizations and faith leaders in Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the agency is violating their religious freedom by denying them access to immigrant detainees at a local federal building.

California congregation is working to host Mennonite Disaster Service recovery efforts one year after wildfires.

A group of American Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious leaders have joined hands with Iranian Muslim religious leaders in a statement to call on their governments to negotiate with mutual respect to end the animosity between their countries and move to a genuine peace.

Would Jesus heal his brother?

California congregation is working to host Mennonite Disaster Service recovery efforts one year after wildfires.

A Jewish tradition shows how to read between the lines.

In Philadelphia, over 20,000 people are released from prison each year. They need housing, employment and accompaniment as they navigate life outside of prison. But neighborhoods are not equipped to receive them.

Acts of solidarity to support the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul took place at Canadian Mennonite University and Goshen College following violent and intimidating strategies used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in January.

Devon Toews scored his first Olympic goal in Canada’s preliminary round game against France at the Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 15. Toews grew up at a Mennonite Brethren congregation in Abbotsford, B.C., and attended Mennonite Educational Institute for his education.

Majority ‘Mennonite’ Russian village expanding farm and church initiatives.

Members of the second Mennonite church to be officially registered in Tanzania, Kanisa la Mennonite la Kiinjili Tanzania (KMKT, Evangelical Tanzania Mennonite Church) celebrated its 20th anniversary Dec. 1-7 in Musoma.

A military junta air strike killed leaders of a Mennonite church Feb. 10 in a village of civilians in Myanmar.

Christians have a duty to confront Islamophobia, ministers argue in new book.

Mission workers encourage gender equality for Hmong in Southeast Asia.

Black missionaries transformed the transatlantic holocaust’s pain into promise. Black and White believers proved the good that happens when God’s people unify.

Do you breakfast like a queen, lunch like a prince and supper like a peasant?

Christmas is a very important moment for Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. In the diverse country of Indonesia, Christmas is not only interpreted as a religious celebration, but also as a social moment to strengthen the values of togetherness, humanity and interfaith tolerance.

Sowing Seeds focuses on the life of J.D. Graber, an Iowa native and early 20th-century Mennonite missionary to India, who from the 1940s to the late 1960s served as executive secretary of the Indiana-based Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities.

Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship will host its annual conference March 13-15 at Eastern Mennonite University with the theme “Solidarity, Community and Resistance in this Political Moment.”