♪Early Anabaptists, highly committed to missions despite the danger, employed security measures similar to our own.

Citizens of heaven: Abundant Springs 2025 in photos.

♪One of the tasks when I began my job here at the EMC office was to examine our external partnership: which were beneficial and which should change.

♪Peace is your portion. Grace is your gift. Love is your language. Son or daughter is your identity. Heaven is your home. You are a citizen of heaven!

♪As I struggled socially and intellectually in the church and with faith, I felt there was some other category that might better anchor me.

I gave up trying to make it look “correct,” fiddled with it a little longer to try and make it look intentionally impressionistic and—failing at that, too—walked away from the easel, defeated.

Hope and grace abound in this edition. Thank you for reporting on the MCC litigation resolution, indicating that their policies exceed legal standards, that people in charge remain people who need grace as well, and that they are aiming to improve.

♪Extrinsic value matters because we want our life and work to mean something. We want influence and respect, and to have the capacity to do things we consider important. But this kind of value often conflicts with our intrinsic value—the worth we have just because we are human, made in God’s image.

Winnipeg, Man.—A new weekly radio program and podcast produced by the Mennonite Heritage Archives (MHA) in Winnipeg is bringing history to life through storytelling. A team of four people creates each 15-minute episode using information gleaned from archival diaries, documents, and photographs, and interviews.

In this short but deeply moving book, Jennifer Siran takes the reader through the multi-faceted aspects of having a child born with congenital heart defects. Siran is encouraging and practical as she visits many topics that are affected by this unplanned medical journey.

Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church, was held March 14-15 at Steinbach Bible College (SBC) and featured Rick Langer, professor at Biola University. Langer began by asking, “Is winsome conviction worth pursuing and why is it so crucial? Why was it important for 120 church leaders from the EMC, MB, EMMC, MB and other conferences to attend this conference?”

Cameron McKenzie opened the meeting with the thought that anything we repeat over and over again—like the Easter message—risks losing impact. But, he said, resurrection isn’t a single event—it is the heartbeat of the gospel, and whatever we find ourselves doing, we’re cultivators of resurrection communities.