MWR : Articles : Feb. 11, 2008

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Articles : Feb. 11, 2008

Politics of Jesus, candidate of change

Imagine Jesus running for president. Stephen Heffner did. He created a Web site, jesusin2008.com, to get people thinking about what kind of candidate Jesus would be.

Africa worker urges relations with Muslims at home

GOSHEN, Ind. — When 120 people gathered Jan. 19 to get a taste of what God is doing in Senegal, they also received a mission imperative to cultivate friendships with their Muslim neighbors close to home.
‘Visual poems’ tell of black peoples globally

CHICAGO — When Julio Cesar Montaño Montenegro puts ink to paper to create poetry, he uses images instead of words to tell stories of the African diaspora and the violence that caused him to leave Colombia.
MVS strives to become more diverse

CHICAGO — Pauline Thompson, 22, worries about supporting herself after being in Mennonite Voluntary Service in Elkhart, Ind. Thompson, who volunteers at a community center for children and at an office providing services to immigrants, also worries about supporting her mother, who immigrated to the United States from Greece, after her father’s recent death.

MWC picks unity theme for assembly in Paraguay

STRASBOURG, France — “Come Together in the Way of Jesus Christ” has been selected as the theme for the 15th assembly of Mennonite World Conference in Asunción, Paraguay, in July 2009.

Costly discipleship

Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:27). How much does it cost to follow Jesus? What crosses must we bear as we journey in radical discipleship?

What if it happened here?

At the end of January, Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery wrote a column about Gazans breaching the wall between the Palestinian and Egyptian sections of Rafah, comparing it to the fall of the Berlin Wall.