Loren Swartzendruber is president of Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.

The Mennonite Creation Care Network encourages the congregations in the Mennonite Church USA and the Mennonite Church Canada to engage in care of the environment and serves as a network for Mennonites engaged in that work. Jennifer Schrock heads the network, which is based in Wolf Lake, Ind.

The Congregational Accessibility Network provides information about a wide variety of disabilities, including autism and Asperger’s syndrome, and offers resources and links. The network, based in Goshen, Ind., is an initiative of the Anabaptist Disabilities Network.

Read an Oct. 8, 2006, Jeff Jacoby column in The Boston Globe about Amish forgiveness.

Read an Oct. 31, 2006, essay in The Christian Century on Amish forgiveness by Donald Kraybill.

A Minneapolis man petitioned for custody of his daughter after he split from his wife, and his wife converted to Old Order Amish. He learned his daughter would not continue school after the eighth grade, a common Amish practice. He won custody, but afterward his daughter disappeared, and was  believed to be living in an Amish […]

Shane Hipps, a former advertising professional, thinks about the influence of new media on faith as the electronically sophisticated lead pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Glendale, Ariz. He wrote The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel and Church (Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006) and “The Gospel According to Electronic Culture: What if the medium really […]

Steve Nolt is a history professor at Goshen College in Goshen, Ind., with formal training as a historian in the areas of U.S. immigration and ethnic history and American religious history. He also has significant personal and professional interest in Mennonite and Amish history and thought. An Anabaptist specialist, he has written extensively about Mennonites, Amish and […]

Ron Sider is founder and president of Evangelicals for Social Action, which promotes Christian engagement, analysis and understanding of major social, cultural and public policy issues. He is also Distinguished Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary in St. Davids, Pa. He is the author of Rich Christians in an […]