I would guess that by the time you have read the title of this article, you have formulated an answer to the question. I invite you to think with me, not how the church is relevant, but why. Let me back up a little to
At the July 2025 Minister’s Business Meeting at Berea Mennonite Church, Rosedale International (RI) announced an upcoming transition in the president’s position. Joe Showalter’s five-year term of service ends in August of 2026, and he will round out his fifth term of service. This means
A Global, Cross-Shaped Movement When we look back over 500 years of the Anabaptist story, it is natural to ask what the next fifty years might hold. Not as an academic question but as people committed to maturing and multiplying disciples in our congregations and
All the people! I am writing, sitting in an airport terminal, watching all the people. Short people, tall people, young people, old people, brown people, and white people. I see people who are wearing New York Yankee hats, people with turbans wrapped around their heads,