Celeste Kennel-Shank, author of What You Sow Is a Bare Seed: A Countercultural Christian Community During Five Decades of Change, is an ordained Mennonite minister living in Chicago.
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Good Samaritans
Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, both 23, face felony charges for aiding people in the Arizona desert who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Their appeal to have the case against them dismissed was denied in January. Sellz and Strauss are volunteers with No More Deaths, a Tucson, Arizona-based coalition of faith-based groups that advocates for immigrant reform and provides food, water, and medical care to migrants crossing the desert.
IRS vs. Pulpit
The nonprofit status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, is being challenged by the Internal Revenue Service because of a sermon in which parishioners were asked to imagine a
Hurricane Stan Ignites Churches
When Hurricane Stan hit the Gulf of Mexico last October, it deluged Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras before losing its power.
A Place of Their Own
A Nicaraguan church helps its community build for the future.