Anabaptist Identities in a Changing World
Mission has been central to the Anabaptist movement from its beginning in the sixteenth century to its global presence today. This engagement in God’s mission to and for the world continues to be facilitated by and stretched through dialogical missiological thinking and reflection. To these ends, we hope the relaunch of the journal Anabaptist Witness, […]
Why counter-recruit? Military recruiters have footholds in schools and advertizing
Military presence in schools The U.S. Army alone manages 1,650 recruiting stations staffed by 7,600 recruiters across the country. These and other branch’s offices are bases of operation—if one does not count public school districts. Without a draft, the United States is dependent upon a steady flow of new enlistees, and what better hotbed exists […]
Walking together in mission
Mennonite Mission Network’s philosophy of mission.
Congo
Joy and hope amidst injustice in the Congo By Lynda Hollinger-Janzen I experience life in the Congo as spicy pili-pili, the hot pepper used to season greens, that most Congolese eat with their fufu day after day—if they are fortunate enough to eat. The intense delight of taste buds is accompanied by a long-lasting burn, […]
How are you called?
How do you and your congregation do mission? The tools and resources for Mission Sunday share ways your church’s gifts are used for mission around the world. You can download the Mission Sunday tools, which include a sermon starter, children’s story, prayer, song and reading suggestions, Scripture passages, and giving project ideas. Choose a Sunday […]
Creating Local Arts Together
Creating Local Arts Together is a manual designed to guide an individual or group into a local community’s efforts at integrating its arts with the values and purposes of God’s kingdom.
Listen, God is calling
Stories of faithfulness By Andrew Clouse When a Jewish family sits down to a Seder or Passover meal, they are entering into a feast of stories. The purpose of the meal is to remember the day God saved the Jewish people from the Egyptians, a moment when God’s faithfulness was tangible. When each child reads […]
New Anabaptist Voices
There have been Mennonites of non-European descent in the United States for several generations already. Yet many people in this country still identify Anabaptism with the Germanic sub-cultures of “Mennonitism.” More recent waves of Anabaptists are, however, searching for new ways of being the faithful church in the midst of rapid and disruptive change. They […]
Postcards from Europe
You’ve got a friend in Europe By Melanie Hess Connie Byler often begins a sentence with the phrase, “I’ve got a friend….” Connie, in her many years of ministry in Spain, has made friends everywhere. She knows people all across Burgos and throughout the surrounding villages, including military generals to whom she taught English, and […]
Atonement, Justice, and Peace
In this substantial study Darrin W. Snyder Belousek offers a comprehensive and critical examination of penal substitution, the most widely accepted evangelical Protestant theory of atonement, and presents a biblically grounded, theologically orthodox alternative.
Forming Christian Habits in Post-Christendom
This book is a significant practical resource for anyone passionate about the renewal of mission, community, and worship in the church today.
Pray
Prayer and mission By Andrew Clouse Ethel Harder, 86, is a mission worker. She’s not in Mongolia, Benin, Burkina Faso, or Argentina. She’s in her home in Reedley, Calif., praying for Mission Network workers all over the world while eating breakfast. Every morning, she says, she chooses a worker or a family from Mission Mosaic, […]