"From our experience serving in these types of contexts — and a commitment to decolonization — here are five ways we’ve learned to think differently about missions". - Alisha and Josh Garber

Nearly 300 People from more than a dozen countries carried each other’s burdens figuratively and literally at Mennonite World Conference’s ninth annual Renewal event March 14 in Lumban, Philippines.

MCC shipped nearly 40,000 comforters in 2025.

News of Trump and Netanyahu’s war in Iran has been fed to us daily. The consequences of this unprovoked war are quickly rippling.

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Angola on April 18, touching down in the capital, Luanda, to begin a three-day visit expected to focus on economic inequality, youth unemployment and governance in one of Africa’s most resource-rich nations.

Edmund Janzen, 88, president of Fresno Pacific University from 1975 to 1985 during a teaching career that included a stint at Tabor College and other church leadership roles, died April 14 at his home in Fresno, Calif.

More young women seem to be giving up on God — or at least organized religion.

From 1962 to 1991, Mennonite-related organizations operated residential schools for Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario. On March 6-8, 30 survivors from those schools gathered in Dryden, Ont., to tell their stories and begin their healing journeys.

As Sandra Shenk volunteered at the Mennonite Relief Center in Hinton, Va., during its annual chicken canning project in late February, she recalled the verses that were part of her Sunday school class earlier that week.

David Chow, a Mennonite Brethren pastor from Calgary, Alberta, has been appointed Mennonite World Conference regional representative for North America.

So that our children can grow up in health and as people of faith.

U.S.-Canadian tension prompts congregations to build cross-border relationships.

When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, one of his first actions was to abruptly block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States through the southern border. Immediately, hundreds of thousands of people seeking refuge lost a legal pathway forward.

Interest in leaving the U.S. military increased dramatically in March after the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began.

Church of the Brethren delegates will consider at this summer’s Annual Conference a resolution on immigration urging civil disobedience when government policies conflict with biblical teachings.

Thulani Conrad Lewis Moore, 71, a longtime antiracism educator and organizer who played key roles in the Damascus Road and Roots of Justice training programs, died Feb. 17. He lived in Tucker, Ga., with his wife and young daughter.

The Budget received honors at the Osman C. Hooper Awards, hosted by Ohio News Media Association, on March 26. Non-daily newspapers in the state of Ohio submitted over 600 entries, which were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of experts in the fields of design, photography, advertising and journalism.

The digitization and online release of records of millions of Germans who joined the Nazi Party will make research on Mennonite involvement in the Third Reich more accessible for researchers.

From Hegseth to RFK Jr., leaders are using religion as symbol — not substance.

Oak Flat’s injunction has been denied. The United States now initiates land transfer to Resolution Copper. We the people still pray and fight for sacred land.

Everence has concluded its $2.5 million Pastoral Financial Wellness Program after 10 years of partnership with Lilly Endowment Inc. through the National Initiative to Address Economic Challenges Facing Pastoral Leaders.

Postponed collaboration with National Symphony Orchestra inserts band into political firestorm.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, MCC has given more than $23.7 million in aid.

What does the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence mean for Anabaptists?

The board of directors of Mennonite Central Committee U.S. has named Rukshan Fernando as the next MCC U.S. executive director.

There’s a framework that sometimes creeps into conversations about Mennonite Church USA — one that treats the denomination like a membership association.

A Mennonite Brethren church made up primarily of Congolese congregants near Cincinnati has closed and reopened following allegations of sexual misconduct by the pastor.

Bethel College President Jon C. Gering will leave his position at the end of June. He has served as president since January 2018. Gering and the Board of Directors announced his resignation March 23 in joint statements.

The letter is short and to the point. It says he has a “firm, fixed and sincere objection to participation in war in any form or the bearing of arms.” That’s the Pentagon’s definition of conscientious objection. The letter also notes his openness to alternative service.

The cross is a vocation to eliminate suffering. It calls us to address systems so there are fewer crosses in the world.

Mennonite World Conference’s 2028 global assembly will be in Tanzania. The Executive Committee announced March 19 it had accepted an invitation from the member churches of that country.

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?