Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Urban issues

Nov. 15, 2010 issue

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  Photo by J. Fred Kauffman/MCC

  Conversation crosses urban-rural divide

  PHILADELPHIA — How do Mennonites break through the cultural and financial barriers that often separate urban, suburban and rural congregations?

  More than 40 church leaders shared stories and reflected on culture, money and building the kingdom of God across the urban-suburban-rural divide Oct. 16 at Oxford Circle Mennonite Church.

July 19, 2010 issue

• A better urban resurrection

  The urban landscape always seems to need renewal that never quite happens. The media often portray cities as cesspools of crime, vice, cheap thrills, immodest dress and coarse manners. Chances are, if you put the word “urban” in front of anything, the image will not be positive: urban youth, urban schools, urban crime.

March 8, 2010 issue

• Urban leaders want a global network

  AKRON, Pa. — Person by person, a new network of urban Anabaptist leaders is growing.
  

Nov. 23, 2009 issue

• Urban pastor shares vision with Bethel students

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — When Cyneatha Millsaps visited Bethel College for the first time recently, she found a network of connections had preceded her.

Oct. 19, 2009 issue

• Listening to the cities’ voices

  Chicago is one of my favorite cities. I especially like its public transit system. It’s easy to use, gets me everywhere I need to go, and I don’t have to deal with the traffic.

Sept. 21, 2009 issue

• As it closes, school’s gift aids another

  How is a school like an organ donor?

Aug. 17, 2009 issue

• Hope builds as prayers rise

  New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly is a busy man. So why did he ask Al Taylor, pastor of Infinity (formerly Seventh Avenue) Mennonite Church in Harlem, how he could help the church expand what it was doing into other neighborhoods? Why was the NYPD reaching out to this church?

July 20, 2009 issue

• Urban church leaders offer ministers advice

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some congregations need a spark to start. Others need to be reignited.

July 6, 2009 issue

• MCC works to curb gun violence

  WASHINGTON — Pastor Aldo Siahaan sent a text message from a Philadelphia hospital apologizing that he could not join fellow members of the Mennonite Central Committee East Coast board at a meeting.

June 8, 2009 issue

• Gathered in by Jesus’ desire

  I am done fighting the fact that we are a commuter congregation.

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