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Evangelical Anabaptist. Catholic Anabaptist. Pentecostal Anabaptist. I have used all these phrases in different contexts to explain my identity as a follower of Christ. In those sentences, the first word…

When we’re young, we’re often identified in relation to our parents (“so-and-so’s kid”). At some point, our parents become known by us (“so-and-so’s mom/dad”). Throughout our life, we take on…

V I E W P O I N T  Let me be honest with you: I don’t want my kids to be evangelical Christians when they grow up. It was…

V I E W P O I N T  Recently I was involved in a group reading through The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersections of Anabaptism and Evangelicalism. It…

Jesus is the only way? Re “Article 17: Christianity and other Faiths” (Summer 2019) Paul Doerksen made a courageous and good will attempt to explain how Mennonite Brethren and Christians…

Let’s be upfront. Most people don’t deal very well with change. We are programmed for predictability. We develop routines and establish comfort zones for our lives. The prospect of things…

“Going to church” with the MB Herald book club Ever been catching up on your newsfeed and impulsively clicked something that caught your eye? Just a momentary spark of interest…

*This article is from the MB Herald archives, originally published August 29, 1997, in the column “A Christian Mind.” Author Walter Unger (1936–2018) served the church as a teacher, administrator,…

“If you could wake up in a world where the folks in your church had the capacity for brave and difficult conversations, would your church be transformed?” I asked this…

Let’s be up front. By now, you probably realize that we are reshaping all parts of Canadian MB ministry. Some of this is driven by financial realities. Other alterations result…

There’s a lot of ugliness in the world. I’m sure each reader could make their own list of injustices and personal tragedies. Here are several that were current as we…

It was already dark when we turned off the main road onto a bumpy track through the forest. A delegation of the Mennonite World Conference Deacons Commission was visiting brothers…

MB Herald welcomes your letters of 150–200 words on issues relevant to the Mennonite Brethren church, especially in response to material published in the Herald. The reader response column is…

Have you ever made a decision when you were for the idea and the other person was against it? Or, been on a board when a vote went five in…

Diversity and unity: both are proof of the presence of the Spirit of God.