The leaders of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S.’ supporting denominations – Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches, Brethren in Christ U.S., CMC (Conservative Mennonite Conference), LMC – a fellowship of anabaptist churches, Mennonite Church USA and U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches – together requested that MCC

This season of uncertainty and unpredictability prompted my curiosity about the response of various friends of Jesus to the shock wave of the last week of Jesus’ life. How did they experience Easter morning’s disruption of the haze of grief and loss they were stumbling

While I enjoy reading magazine and newsletter articles, and I’m often inspired and challenged by them, I rarely remember them more than a month or two later. One exception would be an article in the Beacon some years ago entitled “Things I Would Do Differently”

Near the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, I started hearing reports about spiritual seekers turning to the internet in greater numbers. I decided to increase the amount of money our church was spending to promote Christian resources through Facebook posts in other languages targeting unreached