Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Bible and theology

Jan. 2 issue

• Faith in tension with culture

  On my desk is Third Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire by Tripp York, published by Cascadia Publishing House, Telford, Pa., 2011, 123 pages, $12.95.

Aug. 8, 2011 issue

• Dutch university creates chair of peace theology

  AMSTERDAM — A Congress on Just Peace at the Free University of Amsterdam marked the launch of the university’s chair of peace theology and ethics.

Aug. 1, 2011 issue

• Leading theologian, who taught at Harvard, dies

  Gordon D. Kaufman, an ordained Mennonite minister who became an influential theologian during a 32-year career at Harvard Divinity School and challenged Christians to think of God in new ways, died July 22. He was 86.

July 4, 2011 issue

• Preaching Peace organization pushes discussion on God and violence

  BALTIMORE — Brian McLaren likes to quote Austrian priest, philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich, who said, “If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.”
  

June 13, 2011 issue

• Bible translation presents challenges

  ELKHART, Ind. — Two Mennonite Mission Network partners told a room full of American Mennonite leaders that one of the most important challenges of mission work is communicating God’s Word in people’s “heart language.”

May 23, 2011 issue

• Challenging the politics of empire

  JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — As a young Christian man involved in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, Mpho Putu knew that some of the protest songs — with themes of revenge killing — challenged his desire to live as a faithful disciple of Jesus.

May 2, 2011 issue

• Goshen artist helps develop historic Bible museum

  For the past year and a half, Joel Kauffmann of Goshen, Ind., has been scripting a traveling exhibit that tells what he calls “one of the most tumultuous stories in religious history.”

April 11, 2011 issue

• Group considers emerging role of Mary in Anabaptist faith and worship

  Elkhart, Ind. — After two days of singing, discussing, pondering images and praying, questions continued to swirl around Mary, the mother of Jesus, and what she might mean for Mennonites and Anabaptists today.

March 28, 2011 issue

• Professor: evangelical theology challenges, renews peace belief

  BLUFFTON, Ohio — Evangelical theology poses a profound challenge to Anabaptist peace convictions, says Gerald Mast.

Dec. 13, 2010 issue

• Lessons from many lands enrich campuses at home

  Gasps filled the classroom when Michele Hershberger, chair of the Bible department at Hesston (Kan.) College, shared the story of Christ’s suffering and death with students at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania.

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