When African American civil rights activist Vincent Harding and his wife visited Meridian, Mississippi, in the early 1960s, they met Titus Bender for the first time. Bender, then a Mennonite ... read more about Civil rights activist, pastor and social work professor Titus Bender was a catalyst for social change
He has seen more of the world than Marco Polo. He has opened more mission fields than David Livingstone. He has been as innovative in his world of church ministries ... read more about New Orie O. Miller biography to be celebrated by contemporaries at Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society meeting
Global climate change and human conflict are two different problems, dealt with by different groups, right? Wrong. In fact, the United States military combats terrorism and climate change. Both are ... read more about Veteran peacebuilder discusses global climate change as a destabilizing social and political threat
“When I first began working at Eastern Mennonite College,” recalls professor emeritus Wilmer Lehman ’57, “teaching at EMC was seen as a kind of mission of the church.” Back in the ... read more about Academics in the field of numbers
It didn’t have to be! Two world religions, Christianity and Judaism, didn’t have to split the way they did. That’s the belief of the late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder ... read more about Yoder’s Book Probes Jewish-Christian Rift
How does the church address differences? How can the struggle draw persons together rather than drive them apart? A new book, “Telling Our Stories: Personal Accounts of Engagement with Scripture,” ... read more about New Book Details Personal Encounters With Biblical Text