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Immigration and the Bible

For most people, including many members of the Christian community, foundational understandings of immigration come from the news, their neighbors’ opinions, from national security needs, or the country’s legal framework. M. Daniel Carroll R. firmly believes that God’s people can and must do better than this. “Christians should respond self-consciously as Christians to immigration,” he […]

Can I trust you?

Understanding the living Christ  By Ryan Miller Xola Skosana (p. 6) challenges me. How do I read Christ and stories of Christ’s life? Do I, a member of a dominant culture, assume that I can understand Jesus through that cultural lens?  Lent is an appropriate time for this question. As Jesus spent 40 days away […]

Faith in media

​Media for the kingdom By Stanley W. Green I first met Mapetla Mohapi in the early 1970s when I went to university in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. In my memory of him, he is an energetic, confident and articulate young man, full of life and irrepressible hope. Together, we were part of a […]

Caminos Olvidados

El clásico cambio de paradigma propuesto por Alan Hirsch continua siendo la declaración definitiva de la iglesia como un dinámico movimiento misional. El éxito literario que fue la primera edición, encendió una conversación acerca de cómo aprovechar el poder de los movimientos para el crecimiento futuro de la iglesia. En esta edición actualizada, Hirsch comparte […]

Jesus Matters

Each author in this collection teams with one or more young adults to consider the various ways we encounter and experience Jesus.

Creation is Christ’s

Good news to the whole creation By Stanley W. Green Repeatedly since I was ordained in 1977, I have returned to the words of the hymn written by George Rawson (1807-1889). Rawson based the lyrics on pastor John Robinson’s address to the early Pilgrims in 1620, just before they sailed from Holland to New England. […]

Where is our faith?

​Operating in a different space Choosing trust over fear By Ryan Miller This past autumn, I struggled deeply with the presidential election. The months surrounding the election stoked the fires of fear on all sides — negative campaigning, paranoid rhetoric and, above all, a recession that threatened our entire financial system. We were warned of […]

What is an Anabaptist Christian?

Palmer Becker, a lifelong Mennonite pastor and educator, summarizes Anabaptist understandings in three key statements: (1) Jesus is the center of our faith; (2) community is the center of our lives; and (3) reconciliation is the center of our work.

Tongue Screws and Testimony

Mennonites tend to struggle with sharing their faith through verbal witness. This booklet suggests concrete ways to move Mennonites and other Christians in the direction of a more confident, joyful approach to livin gan dsharing “the hope that is within them.”