“How do we connect the life and worship of the church to our actions? Tony’s death was a call for people, to realize that we need to be doing even more. “
Tom and Carolyn Albright (Tony’s story) — United States
Gladys and Al Geiser — United States
“We don’t understand why it happened, but we do know that God was with Al through all this time.”
Sang-Min Lee released from prison
Last year we shared the story of Sang-Min Lee, a Mennonite conscientious objector sentenced to 18 months in prison. The global church and others who resonated with Sang-Min’s peace witness responded by writing him letters and praying for him. Over the course of a letter-writing campaign supported by Bearing Witness, Justapaz, and Mennonite World Conference, Keep Reading…
Ellene Miller
Although Ellene Miller was already a grandmother in 1985, her age did not keep her from following her faith into complicated situations. In June of that year, Broadway Christian Parish in South Bend, Indiana, commissioned Miller, along with thirty others, for an act of civil disobedience. At the conclusion of the commissioning service, the group Keep Reading…
Joseph, Michael, and David Hofer and Jacob Wipf (Hutterite Martyrs of 1918)
Of the many accounts of war resistance during the First World War, there are few more harrowing than the story of the four Hutterites who were imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth in 1918. The Hutterites are descendants of a large group of Austrian peasants who broke away from the Catholic church in the sixteenth century, living Keep Reading…
Black Kettle, Cheyenne peace chief
On November 27, 1868, Black Kettle, a Cheyenne peace chief, and his wife, Medicine Woman Later, were shot in the back and killed by United States Cavalry fire as they tried to escape an army attack during the Washita Massacre along the Washita River in Oklahoma. Black Kettle’s witness as a Cheyenne chief who pushed Keep Reading…