Conference probes Mennonite complicity, wartime experiences ranging from atrocity to mercy In 2004, Joachim Wieler of Weimar, Germany, opened a small wooden box he inherited after his mother’s death. To …
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Mennonite World Conference PA 2015 opens with celebration, call for walking together
by MeetinghouseThe 16th Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Assembly opened July 21, 2015, in Harrisburg, Pa., with a parade of Mennonites from across the globe, with confession of past treatment of Native …
In three presentations at the Mennonite World Conference General Council meetings May 20–27, theologians and historians revisited the Anabaptist vision in a global context and sought input from meeting participants.
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MWC General Council votes U.S. pastor as president-elect
by MeetinghouseIt took three impromptu songs to count the ballots and confirm the results, but Anabaptist leaders from around the world elected J. Nelson Kraybill president-elect of Mennonite World Conference at …
Road of Suffering Artist: Jakob Wedel Suffering and faith go hand in hand in the story of Russian Germans in the 20th century.
This issue of the Herald celebrates food in all its relationship-building and spiritual potential. We hope it inspires a summer of picnics, potlucks, and long evening coffees! There’s another kind of eating …
The hand of God is often blamed for natural disasters, but Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is working so God gets credit for the cleanup as well.
That there is “a fair bit of dissatisfaction” among its members and supporters over the “unwieldiness” of an organization that takes a minimum of six months to approve decisions – …
At a meeting of the UN General Assembly earlier this decade, heads of state and government agreed that, in the matter of the “responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war …