Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : War and peace issues

Sept. 6 issue

• Not a grand design, just love

  The U.S. war in Afghanistan pursues grand designs of nation-building and the defeat of terrorism. Toward these ends Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars, deploy tens of thousands of troops and sacrifice thousands of lives.

Aug. 23 issue

• Speaker encourages outreach to veterans

  AKRON, Pa. — Through facts, photographs and stories, Carolyn Holderread Heggen described the trauma created by war.

• Diverse peacemakers gather at AMBS

  ELKHART, Ind. — Jamal, a Muslim refugee from Zanzibar, and Matthew, a Jew, got acquainted as their children played in a neighborhood park in Toronto.

Aug. 2 issue

• Police want to help

  Celeste Kennel-Shank’s “Pacifists and Police” begs a response. Having lived in Chicago for more than 30 years and being married to a Chicago police officer gave me experiences and a view probably not commonly held by Mennonites.

July 12 issue

• Pacifists and police

  If in trouble, many pacifists would call the police. Yet we don’t often consider whether that choice would always be in line with our Christian beliefs.

June 21 issue

• On peace index, U.S. ranks 85th

  The world is slightly less peaceful than it was a year ago, in part as a consequence of the global recession.

May 3 issue

• Refugees find peace in Ecuador

  QUITO, Ecuador — For many Colombian refugees who have come here, fleeing political and drug-related violence was not the end of their trials.

• Campaign engages churches around Colombia displacement crisis

  BOGOTÁ, Colombia — At Teusaquillo Mennonite Church, Colombia’s crisis of internally displaced people is not abstract.

April 26 issue

• School invasion

  I have spent much time over the past three years helping high school students become more aware of their career options. This year the federal act No Child Left Behind is to be reviewed and revised. The NCLB includes a provision that allows military recruiters to enter public schools and get personal information about students. Where is the student privacy? I know parents, including some Mennonites, who feel very uneasy with the recruitment approaches used by the U.S. military.

• Seeds of peace sown in Congo’s shadow of death

  BUKAVU, Congo — Among the hundreds of Mennonite Brethren churches that dot the landscape of Congo, one stands apart.

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