“Some experts speculate that the last few decades will be some of the poorest documented in history because the information created or the media it resides on will not stand the test of time,” says Conrad Stoesz, archivist at the Mennonite Heritage Centre and the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies.
The year was 1945. World War II had ended just months before. Clara was busy packing and getting ready for a journey into the unknown, the Belgian Congo. She and …
Pain. Suffering. Despair. Sorrow. What follows is a seemingly natural reaction. Many people, myself included, shake fists at the sky and turn to God with an emphatic “Why?”
Imagine you’re a waitress at a 24-hour family restaurant on a typical, slow Wednesday night.
Mennonite Central Committee provided a record amount of food aid around the world from April 2008 to March 2009.
Profiled are: The Mennonite Artist Project; Gordon Nickel’s website; The Centre for Mennonite Writing
Contents of the September 2009 issue, including coverage of Mennonite World Conference Assembly 15 in Paraguay
As a missionary in Colombia during the 1990s, Dorothy Siebert saw the dearth of materials available to Spanish-speaking pastors and church leaders. A dream was born to provide a resource for MB leaders and church members throughout Latin America, starting with Albert Enns’ biography.
Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian DevotionAuthors: Gayle D. Beebe and Richard J. Foster Longing for God is the latest book from the network of spiritual writers in association with Richard J. Foster and renovaré, Foster’s spiritual renewal movement. Despite being mainly written by Beebe, the book fits well on the longer shelf of books coming from Foster such as Streams of Living Water, Celebration of Discipline, and Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home. In each of these books, Foster provides practical insight into spiritual formation, offering multiple portals through which readers can take further steps in their journey with God.
Introducing Dan Nighswander, Annie and Jean Victor Brosseau, Erica Ray, Nick Boschman, Paul Heidebrecht
Changes for Martin Blumrich, Scott Koop, Bert (Robert) Bell
Farewell to Bill Janzen, Peter Laurie