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Comunidad Anabautista en México participa en la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas

La Comunidad Anabautista del Camino estuvo involucrada en la VI Brigada Nacional de Búsqueda de Desaparecidos que se realizó en el estado de Morelos en México, desde el 9 de octubre hasta el 4 de diciembre de 2021. Como iglesia estuvimos presente en diferentes actividades de la Brigada, acompañando espiritualmente a las buscadoras y buscadores […]

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Lies, Fakes, and Deception in Political Discourse—Can Christians Join In?

War has been raging in Ukraine for days. Russia has invaded the country, supposedly only to assist the breakaway areas of Ukraine, the so-called People’s Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk. In truth, the entire country is already in a state of war. What was and is being sold to the world as a peacekeeping mission […]

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Place and the Construction of Christian Service – Response to AW Book Forum by Alain Epp Weaver

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Place and the Construction of Christian Service Response to AW Book Forum by Alain Epp Weaver* Where does Christian service unfold? What places shape understandings of Christian service? How have those landscapes of Christian service been formed […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Epp Weaver by Anicka Fast

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Response to Epp Weaver by Anicka Fast* “Making room for the vitality of world Christianity” within MCC A review of Alain Epp Weaver, Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation: A Missiological History of Mennonite Central Committee (North […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Epp Weaver by Andrés Pacheco Lozano

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Response to Epp Weaver by Andrés Pacheco Lozano* “Así que somos embajadores[as] de Cristo” (2 Cor. 5:20, NVI). Some years ago, I had the opportunity to read and discuss this text on the Ministry of Reconciliation (2 […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Epp Weaver by Regina Shands Stoltzfus

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Response to Epp Weaver by Regina Shands Stoltzfus* The questions Alain Epp-Weaver asks regarding the practice of Christian service that has “embodies colonialism’s racialized value hierarchies” have been a critical concern and foundation for presence and work […]

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AW Book Forum – “Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation” by Alain Epp Weaver

AW Book Forum Presentation In our first Anabaptist Witness Book Forum, we want to share with you three responses to Alain Epp Weaver’s book Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation: A Missiological History of Mennonite Central Committee. In this work—developed from the 2019 Menno Simons lectures delivered at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas—Weaver reflects […]

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An Open Letter to Mark Ramseyer

Kim SeongHan is Representative for MCC Northeast Asia and a member of Jesus Heart Mennonite Church, Republic of Korea. This open letter responds to an opinion piece by Harvard Law School professor Mark Ramseyer claiming that World War II-era Korean “comfort women,” who were forced into sex work by the Japanese military, were actually exercising their free, […]

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How I Learned to Love the Government

I grew up in a Mennonite church, attended a Mennonite college, and graduated from a Mennonite seminary. Along the way I was indoctrinated with the classic Anabaptist perspective that governments—with their use of coercive power and violence—are for the unredeemed, but that true Christians dedicate their lives to the service of the church: a counter-government […]

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Global Partnerships and Shared Gifts

The following is an excerpt from a piece by César García (Mennonite World Conference) and David Wiebe (International Community of Mennonite Brethren), originally published in The Church in Mission, edited by Victor Wiens (MB Mission). Thanks to Vic we are able to present the full article online. In addition to this excerpt on sharing gifts, the authors […]

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