The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board (EB) continues to discern whether or not to hold the 2013 convention in Phoenix as planned.

On Dec. 16, the EB released an update on the process and the current direction and invites prayers in this final period of discernment. The EB anticipates making a final decision at its Jan. 7-9 meeting ...

Two months after Mennonite Central Committee worker Glen Lapp and nine other aid workers were killed in rural Afghanistan, Lapp's father, Marvin, brother Jerry and cousin Joe were welcomed in the guesthouse in Kabul where Glen had lived.

They took part in an Oct. 1 memorial service for the 10 who died Aug. 5, 2010.

But they also were able to visit the office where Glen helped to arrange logistics for rural eye camps and contacted village leaders to work out permissions and details. Following Glen's example, they carried a banana and toffee pie to four friends who lived nearby ...

It's become a Christmas tradition--each year the cultural warriors spread good cheer and the love of Christ by bitterly complaining about the secularization of the Christmas. Leading the charge in past years have been the elves at Fox News, who argue that the use of the phrase "Happy Holidays" and the removal of traditional seasonal symbols like the Christmas tree represent the liberal onslaught against religion in the public sphere.

And while it's easy to make fun, pundits like Bill O'Reilly or Gretchen Carlson bring voice to the old anxiety that Christianity is losing its prominent cultural place in American society ...