Amish, Mennonites & Quakers

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (108+ words) Teguh Karyanto | For Anabaptist World The Mennonite legacy in Papua is an ongoing history, not merely a story that concluded with the era of the missionaries. GBAI congregations strive to trace these roots while building church life in their local…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (599+ words) Jack Jenkins | Religion News Service Mariann Budde, who shot to fame after urging President Donald Trump to have mercy on immigrants and others, announced on Oct. 1 that she plans to resign as head of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. The…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (577+ words) For National Poetry Day, Rhiannon Grant collects some Quaker poetry and suggests where to find more. There may be something particularly helpful to Quakers in poetry: Quaker poets Philip Gross and Laurence Lerner suggest in a reflective article that "Poetry,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (889+ words) Mennonite Action finds spiritual kinship with Mary, a young woman with revolutionary thoughts A theology of political activism must be a theology of hope: hope in a God who saves people from bondage, a God who challenges those who hoard…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (371+ words) Yonat Shimron | Religion News Service A 120 year-old United Methodist Church in rural Michigan shutters. A traditional Catholic church in New York’s Greenwich Village is packed with young people in their 20s and 30s. And a network of house churches meeting in people’s…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (321+ words) This year's national Prisons Week, running from 11 to 17 October in England and Wales, has adopted the theme All Are Invited. Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) says the message closely reflects its Welcoming All initiative, which encourages Quaker meetings to be…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (785+ words) The ability to rest is locked behind social privilege. But God commands a Sabbath for all. When anyone invokes the Ten Commandments in a conversation on politics, perhaps your skin crawls as much as mine does. That is, until I…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (398+ words) Ellie Ashby | Religion News Service The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has lifted a financial freeze on Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, restoring federal funding to the South Texas nonprofit run by prominent Catholic leader Sister Norma Pimentel, she…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (888+ words) Most Amish rebuff efforts to court their votes Do the Amish vote? I get this question a lot, especially as voter mobilization efforts targeting Amish communities draw national attention. In an era of political polarization and Donald Trump, the question…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (174+ words) “Let the Children Come to Me: Protecting Children from Militarized Violence” (Mark 9:36-37) is the theme for the next Christian Citizenship Seminar (CCS) sponsored by the Church of the Brethren’s Youth and Young Adult Ministry. The 2027 CCS is planned for April…...