Who Will Be A Witness

Churches have begun awakening to social and political injustices, often carried out in the name of Christianity. But once awakened, how will we respond? Who Will Be a Witness offers a vision for communities of faith to organize for deliverance and justice in their neighborhoods, states, and nation as an essential part of living out the […]

Webinar: Speak the truth in love

Speak the truth in love  Webinar with Pastors Kevin Himes and Vikki Pruitte-Sorrells, hosted by Ann Jacobs (Recorded Thursday, February 18, 2021) Follow-up resources Request Mission Network guest speaker for your congregation to speak about racial reconciliation Article—Ash Wednesday and White Supremacy Revolutionary non-violence—Beggars & Saints | Anabaptist World Books Love over Fear: Facing Monsters, […]

Story 5: Dismantling systemic racism

Ann Jacobs, Church Relations representative, wrote a blog regarding the death of George Floyd at the hands of police brutality and the outpouring of protest. Here is an excerpt from that blog:  "… In a review of the verse in 1 Corinthians 12:26, when one suffocates, we all suffocate. … We are God’s ambassadors for […]

Displacement

​The legacy of boundary-crossing colonial mission includes massive displacement—of native peoples from their homelands in Africa and the Americas, and of the produce of many lands, such as sugar, tobacco, and opium, for imperial purposes. The coerced movement and violent destruction of bodies and goods entails further displacements of psyches and families, cultures and languages. […]

Mission Sunday reflection

The Repentance that Leads to Life Jonah 3:1-10 For Mission Sunday 2020, Joe Sawatzky, Church Relations Representative at Mennonite Mission Network, shares insights on repentance from the story of Jonah and today’s global context. It is through our own repentance that we can experience the forgiveness and life that God offers.

We have sinned

We have sinned

​Both we and our ancestors have sinned;    we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly. Graphic design by Cynthia Friesen Coyle.

Love one another

Love one another

​8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet"; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, "Love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love does no wrong […]

En respuesta a un compromiso renovado con la paz

Cuando en enero inauguraron la Iglesia y el Centro de Paz de Brooklyn en la ciudad de Nueva York, Jason y Vonetta Storbakken y Ruth Yoder Wenger no sabían que dos meses después una pandemia y múltiples protestas repentinamente amenazarían con inmovilizarlos. Sin embargo, en lugar de paralizarlos, la cuarentena por el COVID-19 y las […]

Responding to a renewed peace commitment

When they launched the Brooklyn Peace Church and Center in New York City this past January, Jason and Vonetta Storbakken and Ruth Yoder Wenger did not know that two months later a pandemic and protests would threaten to stop them in their tracks.   Rather than stopping them, however, the COVID-19 lockdown and protests over the […]

A conversation with Karen Spicher and Jae Young Lee

Mike Sherrill, director of Asia and the Middle East for Mennonite Mission Network, interviews Karen Spicher and Jae Young Lee about their work in South Korea, their sabbatical here in the United States, and their experience during this time of COVID-19. Karen Spicher serves as the communications coordinator for Northeast Asia Regional Peace Building Institute […]

Omnibus Edition

​The image on the cover of this issue of Anabaptist Witness is a painting by our designer, Matt Veith, of a medieval church in Italy from a travel advertisement. The architecture—with the colonial-era buildings that bear resemblance to styles elsewhere in the world, particularly in the Americas—reminds me of a form of Christianity, and of Christian mission, […]

Migration, empathy and welcome

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning epic, Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck recounts the harshness of the Great Depression and gives us a glimpse into the struggles of migrant farmworkers. In it, he tells the heart-rending stories of people who loaded up their vehicles with all they could fit and moved from a devastated and ravaged […]