Prayer of Awareness

This reflective prayer practice (also known as the consciousness examen) helps us discover how God has been present to us throughout the day. It invites us to notice how we have responded to God’s love and call. Practiced regularly, such reflection brings healing and integration which are essential for deepening faith.  Because of its capacity to cultivate […]

PRAY for the PEACE of Jerusalem

In many ways, Jerusalem is a microcosm of our world. It is ancient, beautiful, and teeming with life. And it continues to be torn apart by violence and enmity, fueled by injustice, mistrust, and often—tragically—the misuse of sacred Scripture. Jerusalem is a holy city to not just one, but three, of the world’s religions: Judaism, […]

Agreeing and disagreeing in love

Peace Sunday comes this year in the midst of a national election season. Deciding how to participate, or to participate at all, in the political process can be a spiritual exercise when pursued through prayer and in discerning communities of faith. The result of that exercise will lead followers of Jesus to different conclusions. These […]

Worship and Mission for the Global Church

This book and enclosed DVD offer theological reflection, case studies, practical tools, and audiovisual resources to help the global church appreciate and generate culturally appropriate arts in worship and witness.

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, […]

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.

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.

Understanding the Atonement for the Mission of the Church

Driver’s book is an invitation to look at the cross, not merely as the source of individual salvation, but as the place wherein begins the renewal of the creation – the new heavens and the new earth that God has promised and that the messianic community anticipates.

‘A New Day in Mission’

In Africa, the ancestors guide life from their superior vantage point of proximity to spiritual power and from their wealth of experiential wisdom. Since Ed and Irene Weaver have been those ancestors for me and my husband, Rod, being chosen to write part of Irene’s story is one of the highest honors I have ever […]