Spiritual director Reuben Chupp shares a poem about finding silence as a means to prepare for meetings with his spiritual directees. Ruben Chupp retired from full-time pastoral ministry in 2018,... read more →
Spiritual director Jane Hoober Peifer laments the difficulties of staying present while at her listening post. In her retirement from pastoral ministry, Jane Hoober Peifer has transitioned into providing spiritual... read more →
Pastors Suzette Shreffler and Sandy Drescher-Lehman share a prayer and a blessing, respectively, crying out for better stewardship of God's creation and beginning the Learn, Pray, Join: Climate Justice: Seeking... read more →
In September, several Mennonite churches from Northwest Ohio worked together to host a community event about gun safety. Several organizations, such as RAWtools and Mennonite Central Committee, also helped make... read more →
Michael George, a Palestinian-American, laments the recent attacks from Hamas and ongoing war in Israel/Palestine. This blog post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s ongoing Learn, Pray, Join: Cost of... read more →
Joel Shenk, pastor of Toledo Mennonite Church, describes how he learned blacksmithing as part of his personal peace witness and how his conference and congregation have joined him in this... read more →
To begin Mennonite Church USA's latest Learn, Pray, Join initiative, End Gun Violence, Jonny Rashid shares this prayer of lament about gun violence. This blog post is part of Mennonite Church... read more →
Bonita Croyle (she/her) is a transracial adoptee, speaker, writer and legal communications professional. She routinely engages with interfaith communities and individuals on topics regarding racial justice and transracial adoption, and... read more →
This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s #BeTransformed series. Kevin Gasser is the pastor of Staunton Mennonite Church in Staunton, Virginia. He is currently studying comparative theological ethics at... read more →
Shannon W. Dycus is a member of the steering committee for MC USA's Women in Leadership and has given leadership to worship across MC USA. As an educator and pastor,... read more →
This prayer is part of Mennonite Church USA’s Cost of Poverty: Learn, Pray, Join initiative. Lane Miller is a theologian working at the intersection of faith, economics and ethics. He graduated from... read more →
By MC USA Staff Holy God, You have created us, called us by name, and called us beloved. No matter who we are, where we come from, or where... read more →
Por Alma Ovalle para Leader MenoMedia Presencia latitudinal y longitudinal con Dios y los demás Recuerdo que cuando era niña... read more →
Por Adriana Celis Frente a las dificultades que la iglesia ha sufrido por la pandemia, la pastora Leticia Cortés de la Iglesia Menonita Centro de Alabanza de Filadelfia, se propuso... read more →
This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Katie Graber is an ethnomusicologist, who studies race and ethnicity in a variety of contexts, including Mennonite music, American music and... read more →