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Douglas B. Miller 55/1 (2026): 2–3	Editorial From the Editor: The Gospel, Peacemaking, and the Kingdom
Gil Dueck 55/1 (2026): 4–16	Feature Article Diagonalizing the Village and the City: A Theological Exploration of Article 12
Ken Esau 55/1 (2026): 17–34	Feature Article Peace, Violence, and Article 13
Jodi Enns 55/1 (2026): 35–44	Feature Article Peacemaking: Seeking the Shalom of the Local Church
Tim Geddert 55/1 (2026): 45–58	Feature Article Peacemaking and Police/Army Service: Can a Christian Do Both?
Phil M. Wagler 55/1 (2026): 64–74	Feature Article Even Here! The Church as God’s Reconciling Presence in a Fractured World
Peter E. Smith 55/1 (2026): 75–88	Feature Article Resist Not: Giving Up on Winning to Make Space for Something Better
J Janzen 55/1 (2026): 89–111	Feature Article Force for Peace: A Case Against Nonresistance
Rod and Leanne Schellenberg 55/1 (2026): 112–118	Ministry Compass Amateur Geographers: Knowledge of Place in Pastoral Ministry
Doug Heidebrecht 54/2 (2025): 162–178	Feature Article Seeing Through a Confessional Lens: Renewing a Vision for Anabaptist/Mennonite Brethren Identity
Craig Allen Jost 54/2 (2025): 270–278	Ministry Compass Recapturing the Voice of Mission
Mark D. Baker 54/1 (2025): 84–97	Feature Article A Centered-Set Paradigm for Being Church
Brian Cooper 54/1 (2025): 98–109	Feature Article Centered-Set Church: A Review and Critique
Mark D. Baker 54/1 (2025): 110–115	Feature Article Response to Brian Cooper
Sherri Guenther Trautwein 54/1 (2025): 116–121	Ministry Compass Gifts and Complexities of Shared Leadership in Anabaptist Contexts
Douglas B. Miller 54/1 (2025): 112–136	Recommended Reading On Anabaptism
Ken Esau 53/2 (2024): 127–140	Feature Article Why Church?
Kristal Toews 53/2 (2024): 141–153	Feature Article Why MB?
Rick Faw 53/2 (2024): 179–186	Feature Article Caring for Creation in the Local Church: Where to Begin?
Sharon Simpson 53/2 (2024): 187–193	Ministry Compass A Renewed Passion for Evangelism to Revitalize the Church
Jon C. Olson 52/2 (2023): 147–158	Feature Article Can Christians Who Disagree about Homosexuality Still Get Along? What We Can Learn from the Inclusivism of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Brian A. Ross 52/1 (2023): 41–54	Feature Article Then and Now: A Traveling Preacher’s Observations of the Post-COVID-19 Church
Lee Kosa 51/2 (2022): 171–179	Feature Article Identity, Anxiety, and the Holy Spirit
Paul Doerksen 51/2 (2022): 180–186	Feature Article Confession as Cry of Acknowledgment
Andrew Kowan 50/2 (2021): 177–188	Feature Article The Church, Residential Schools, and Malformed Discipleship
Tabitha VandenEnden 50/2 (2021): 215–221	Ministry Compass Reading in and for Community
Randy Wollf 50/1 (2021): 85–96	Feature Article Community Discernment for Making Major Group Decisions
Katie Isaac 49/1 (2020): 52–62	Feature Article Starting and Sustaining Creation Care Conversations
Michael VandenEnden 48/2 (2019): 120–136	Feature Article Confessing the Faith and Tradition: D. H. Williams and Mennonite Brethren Confessional Integrity
Tim Geddert 48/1 (2019): 13–21	Feature Article The Kingdom and the Church
Tim Dickau 48/1 (2019): 49–54	Feature Article Seeking the Kingdom of God as a Church in a Postmodern Age
Pierre Gilbert 47/2 (2018): 154–168	Feature Article Light to the Nations: The Servant of the Lord and the Mission of the Church (Isaiah 49:1–6)
Doug Heidebrecht 47/2 (2018): 252–271	Feature Article Preacher, Teacher, Pastor, and Elder: Mennonite Brethren and McClendon’s Portrayal of Church Authorities
Paul Cumin 45/2 (2016): 157–179	Feature Article Sex After Church: Sexuality via Christology, Revelation, and Ecclesiology
Irma Fast Dueck 45/2 (2016): 180–191	Feature Article Without Rings or Strings: Engaging Cohabitation in the Church
Carol Penner 45/2 (2016): 192–208	Feature Article Violence Against Women in the Mennonite Brethren Church: Abuse Policies are Not Enough
Richard G. Kyle 39/2 (2010): 162–176	Feature Article The Electronic Church: An Echo of American Culture
Jason Derr 39/2 (2010): 177–188	Feature Article ADHD Culture: Emerging Technologies and the Gospel
David W. T. Brattston 39/2 (2010): 265–270	Feature Article Disputes Between Christians
Rafael Zaracho 39/2 (2010): 271–281	Ministry Compass Communicating the Gospel in a Shame Society
Vic Froese 39/1 (2010): 1–2	Editorial From the Editor: The Emerging Church: Critiques and Appreciations
Paul Doerksen 39/1 (2010): 3–18	Feature Article The Air is Not Quite Fresh: Emerging Church Ecclesiology
Alan Stucky 39/1 (2010): 19–31	Feature Article Anabaptism and Emergence: Collision or Convergence
Travis I. Barbour Nicholas E. Toews 39/1 (2010): 32–40	Feature Article The Emergent Church: A Methodological Critique
Tim Neufeld 39/1 (2010): 41–55	Feature Article Can Mennonite Brethren Be Missional?
Cory L. Seibel 39/1 (2010): 56–70	Feature Article The Heart of God in the Heart of the City: Missional Vocation and the Urban Congregation
Leonard Hjalmarson 39/1 (2010): 71–83	Feature Article Ancient Monasticism and the Anabaptist Future: A Tale of Two Reformers
Rick Bartlett 39/1 (2010): 97–105	Ministry Compass Why I Can’t Write an Article on the Emergent Church
Vic Froese 39/1 (2010): 106–112	Recommended Reading The Emerging Church: A Select Bibliography
Cory Seibel 38/2 (2009): 246–253	Ministry Compass It’s All About Me, Jesus: The Narcissistic Worship Leader
Paul Doerksen 38/1 (2009): 2–4	Editorial From the Editor: Toward Anabaptist Political Theology
John E. Toews 38/1 (2009): 5–16	Feature Article The Politics of Confession
Corey Herlevsen 38/1 (2009): 92–104	Ministry Compass Eusebiagenics, or, The Perils of Piety: Another Look at Luke 15
Matthew Todd 37/2 (2008): 238–42	Ministry Compass The Challenge of Jesus’s Great Commission
Michelle Ferguson 36/2 (2007): 247–57	Feature Article Anabaptist Liturgy: Sacramental Theology
Bruce Enns 36/2 (2007): 263–68	Ministry Compass Perspective—Seeing with the Eyes of God
Douglas B. Miller 36/1 (2007): 2–3	Editorial From the Editor: Reworking Our Traditions
Michelle Ferguson 36/1 (2007): 5–19	Feature Article Anabaptist Liturgy: An Oxymoron?
Richard Rawls 36/1 (2007): 93–98	Ministry Compass Teaching and Teachers in the Early and Contemporary Church
Douglas B. Miller 35/2 (2006): 206–7	Editorial From the Editor: The Evangelical Conscience
David S. Faber 35/2 (2006): 209–21	Feature Article Discerning the Scandal and Its Depth
Jon Isaak 35/2 (2006): 222–34	Feature Article The Biblical Witness/Invitation to an Alternative World: A Reading Strategy for the Journey
Harold Jantz 35/2 (2006): 235–44	Feature Article Looking for Grace and the Gospel
John H. Redekop 35/2 (2006): 245–52	Feature Article Being the Church in the Midst of Culture
Paul Doerksen 35/2 (2006): 253–60	Feature Article Hope Without Eschatology?
Ronald J. Sider 35/2 (2006): 261–65	Feature Article Reflections on the Essay Responses
Andrew Klager 35/2 (2006): 268–78	Feature Article Passive Sacramentalism and Ontological Soteriology in Hans Denck and Gregory of Nyssa
Marvin Dyck 35/2 (2006): 300–304	Ministry Compass Can Pastors Have a Good Time?
Douglas B. Miller 35/1 (2006): 2	Editorial From the Editor: Old Testament Scholarship in Honor of Allen Guenther
Vic Froese 35/1 (2006): 154–61	Feature Article The Purpose-Driven Life: A Review Essay
Jeff Nikkel 35/1 (2006): 176–82	Ministry Compass Growing Christlike Together
Douglas B. Miller 34/2 (2005): 132	Editorial From the Editor: Culture Critique
Doug Heidebrecht 34/2 (2005): 181–93	Feature Article Distinction and Function in the Church: Reading Galatians 3:28 in Context
Douglas B. Miller 34/1 (2005): 2	Editorial From the Editor: Christian Spirituality
Gay Lynn Voth 34/1 (2005): 3–14	Feature Article Anabaptist Liturgical Spirituality and the Supper of Christ
Gerald Ediger 34/1 (2005): 15–28	Feature Article A Sketch of Early Mennonite Brethren Spirituality
Garry Schmidt 34/1 (2005): 29–42	Feature Article Early Anabaptist Spirituality: History and Response
Wendy J. Miller 34/1 (2005): 43–53	Feature Article The Heart Rediscovered: Hope for Leadership Transformation
Vange Willms Thiessen 34/1 (2005): 54–63	Feature Article The Great Work to Be Born: Spiritual Formation for Leaders
Erwin Klassen 34/1 (2005): 64–70	Feature Article Grave Robber: Spirituality and the Art of Theft
Gerald Gerbrandt 33/2 (2004): 133–142	Feature Article Scholars as Servants of the Church
Doug Heidebrecht 33/2 (2004): 171–184	Feature Article Reading 1 Timothy 2:9-15 in Its Literary Context
Jerry Truex 33/2 (2004): 185–193	Feature Article God’s Spiritual House: A Study of 1 Peter 2:4-5
Douglas B. Miller 33/1 (2004): 2	Editorial From the Editor: Baptism and Church Membership
Jon Isaak 33/1 (2004): 3–20	Feature Article Baptism Among the Early Christians
Lynn Jost 33/1 (2004): 21–32	Feature Article Mennonite Brethren Theology of Baptism
Walter Unger 33/1 (2004): 33–47	Feature Article The Church “Without Spot or Wrinkle”: Testing the Tradition
David Falk 33/1 (2004): 48–59	Feature Article Baptism and Membership: An Alternative Perspective
Ken Peters 33/1 (2004): 60–69	Feature Article Summary Report on the Baptism and Membership Study Conference
Marlene Enns 33/1 (2004): 70–84	Feature Article Many Counselors Bring Success: Making Room for Holistic and Analytic Reasoning
Dennis Fast 33/1 (2004): 102–106	Ministry Compass Making Space in Ministry for Mentors
Douglas B. Miller 32/2 (2003): 150–154	Editorial From the Editor: Vocation
Raymond O. Bystrom 32/2 (2003): 166–172	Feature Article God as Worker: How It Affects Life and Ministry
Ron Toews 32/2 (2003): 173–183	Feature Article Ministers in the Marketplace
Donald J. Isaac 32/2 (2003): 184–192	Feature Article Work and Christian Calling
John Neufeld 32/2 (2003): 193–201	Feature Article Rediscovering the Calling and Sending Church
Jim Holm 32/2 (2003): 202–212	Feature Article The North American MB Call to Pastoral Leadership
Doug Enns 32/2 (2003): 225–228	Ministry Compass Why I Do What I Do
Jon Pritchard 32/1 (2003): 122–26	Ministry Compass Planting Anabaptist Churches in Mexico
Gordon H. Matties 32/1 (2003): 127–30	Recommended Reading Nurturing Peace, Responding to Violence: A Bibliographic Reflection
Michele Hershberger 31/2 (2002): 135–47	Feature Article The Baptism Ritual in a Postmodern World
Laura Kalmar 31/2 (2002): 148–58	Feature Article Children and Baptism in the Mennonite Brethren Church
David Esau 31/2 (2002): 159–67	Feature Article Dry Times for Believer’s Baptism?
Sharon Johnson 31/2 (2002): 168–75	Feature Article A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Ritch Hochstetler 31/2 (2002): 176–85	Feature Article Thirsty for the Reign: A Kingdom Theology for Youth Ministry, Part Two
Tim Neufeld 31/2 (2002): 194–205	Feature Article Postmodern Models of Youth Ministry
Rodney P. Reed 31/1 (2002): 4–12	Feature Article Big Questions, Bigger Faith
Regina Shands Stoltzfus 31/1 (2002): 13–17	Feature Article City Youth and the Call to Serve
Abram Bergen 31/1 (2002): 18–25	Feature Article Youth Encountering God
Gareth Brandt 31/1 (2002): 26–34	Feature Article A Radical Christology for a Radical Youth Ministry
Wendell Loewen 31/1 (2002): 35–45	Feature Article Thirsty for the Reign: A Kingdom Theology for Youth Ministry, Part One
Derrick Mueller 31/1 (2002): 46–53	Feature Article Virtues of an Effective Youth Worker
Randall Schroeder 31/1 (2002): 54–61	Feature Article A Generation of Ghosts
James Penner 31/1 (2002): 62–67	Feature Article Response to “A Generation of Ghosts”
Laurie Oswald 31/1 (2002): 68–73	Feature Article Writing for Youth: An Interview with Carol Duerksen
Rod Jost 31/1 (2002): 96–100	Ministry Compass The Tale of Sir Rodney
Wendell Loewen Douglas B. Miller 31/1 (2002): 101–108	Recommended Reading On Ministry to Youth, Spirituality, and Christian Counterculture
David Dyck 30/2 (2001): 211–16	Ministry Compass Why Not Just Live Together? Some Reflections on Covenant Community
Tamira Regier Wiebe 30/1 (2001): 101–4	Ministry Compass The New Adult: Life in the Brave New World
Raymond O. Bystrom 30/1 (2001): 105–8	Recommended Reading On the Church and Our Culture
Rick Bartlett 29/2 (2000): 185–90	Ministry Compass Belonging and Believing
Bill Braun 29/1 (2000): 64–67	Ministry Compass The Joys of 7/8 Time
Marva J. Dawn 28/2 (1999): 139–52	Feature Article Worship to Form a Missional Community
Herb Kopp 28/2 (1999): 244–47	Ministry Compass Things That Change and Things That Don’t Change
Raymond O. Bystrom 28/2 (1999): 248–61	Recommended Reading Pick Up and Read!
Russell C. Rosser 27/2 (1998): 189–92	Ministry Compass A Multiethnic Model of the Church
Harry Huebner 27/1 (1998): 41–52	Feature Article How to Do Things with Confessions
Helmut Harder 27/1 (1998): 53–56	Feature Article Making the “Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective”
Rodney D. Anderson 27/1 (1998): 84–86	Ministry Compass The Church’s Forgotten Priority
Chuck Goertz 26/2 (1997): 85–89	Ministry Compass Celebrating the Lord’s Table
Gaylord Goertzen 26/1 (1997): 89–92	Ministry Compass A Look at Leadership
Doug Heidebrecht 25/2 (1996): 54–63	Feature Article The Renewal of Perception: Romans 12:2 and Post Modernity
John E. Toews 24/1 (1995): 90–95	Feature Article Moving from Centrifugal to Centripetal: A Sermon on Col. 1:15-20
Larry Warkentin 22/2 (1993): 3–12	Feature Article Caring About Music in the Church
Mary Anne Isaak 22/2 (1993): 39–50	Feature Article Zairian Theology in Four-Part Harmony
Roy L. Klassen 22/2 (1993): 51–59	Feature Article Church Choral Musicians: A Survey of Mennonite Perceptions
Jonah C. Kliewer 22/2 (1993): 72–74	Recommended Reading A Church Musician’s Basic Library
Larry Martens 21/1 (1992): 3–14	Feature Article Anabaptist Theology and Congregational Care
J. B. Toews 20/2 (1991): 102–13	Feature Article The Church Growth Theory and Mennonite Brethren Polity
Marvin Hein 20/2 (1991): 114–17	Feature Article Response to J. B. Toews
Herbert D. Neufeld 20/2 (1991): 117–20	Feature Article Response to J. B. Toews
Walter Unger 20/1 (1991): 3–17	Feature Article Focusing the Evangelical Vision
Paul Toews 20/1 (1991): 18–25	Feature Article Recent Interpretations of Evangelical Pluralism
Kevin Enns-Rempel 20/1 (1991): 67–71	Feature Article Interpretations of Evangelicalism: An Annotated Bibliography
M. A. Solomon 20/1 (1991): 72–76	Feature Article Evangelicalism in India: Dealing with Nominalism and Cults
Laurence D. Hiebert 20/1 (1991): 76–78	Feature Article Evangelicalism in Japan
Byron Burkholder 20/1 (1991): 78–79	Feature Article Evangelicalism in Zaire: Thriving but Non-Aligned
Peter J. Loewen 20/1 (1991): 80–82	Feature Article Evangelicalism in Colombia: Stressful Times, Then and Now
Peter Penner 20/1 (1991): 83–86	Feature Article Evangelicalism in Germany: Immersed in Controversies
John Vooys 20/1 (1991): 87–95	Feature Article No Clergy or Laity: All Christians Are Ministers in the Body of Christ, Ephesians 4:11-13
Dalton Reimer 19/2 (1990): 3–17	Feature Article Phases in Problem Solving: A Biblical Model for the Christian Community
Marlin E. Thomas 19/2 (1990): 65–74	Feature Article The Pastor’s Role in Managing Church Conflict
Levi Keidel 19/2 (1990): 100–106	Feature Article Church Identity: Blurred but Recoverable
Delores Friesen 19/1 (1990): 59–68	Feature Article Sexuality Issues in Family and Congregation
John E. Toews 18/2 (1989): 3–26	Feature Article The Nature of the Church
Jim Holm 18/2 (1989): 27–32	Feature Article Recovering Accountability
Harry Heidebrecht Gerald Ediger 18/2 (1989): 72–79	Feature Article Findings: The Nature and Ministry of the Church (Study Conference, Normal, Illinois)
Herb Kopp 18/1 (1989): 51–54	Feature Article A Year of Ethics in the Church
Elias Wiebe 18/1 (1989): 67–74	Feature Article Moral Growth and Maturity and the Church
Gus Quadrizius 18/1 (1989): 75–80	Feature Article The Place of Ethical Statements in a Confession of Faith
John P. Schmidt 17/2 (1988): 42–57	Feature Article New Wine from the Vineyard
Herbert Giesbrecht 16/2 (1987): 62–70	Feature Article The Evangelical Church and Social Change: Toward a Broader Perspective
Allen R. Guenther 15/2 (1986): 3	Feature Article Preface
Herbert Brandt 15/2 (1986): 4–7	Feature Article A Pastoral Letter: A Call to Reason Together
Raymond O. Bystrom 15/2 (1986): 9–20	Feature Article A Converted and Baptized People
Howard J. Loewen 15/2 (1986): 21–31	Feature Article A Confessing People
Edmund Janzen 15/2 (1986): 32–44	Feature Article A Covenanting People
Gerald Ediger 15/2 (1986): 45–56	Feature Article A Ministering People
Herb Kopp 15/2 (1986): 57–68	Feature Article A Serving People
Helga Loewen Loyal J. Martin Delbert L. Wiens 15/2 (1986): 69–77	Feature Article Findings Report: Mennonite Brethren Study Conference, October 15-17, 1986
Irene Loewen 15/1 (1986): 60–72	Feature Article Child Sexual Abuse in the Church
Al Dueck J. B. Toews Abram G. Konrad 14/2 (1985): 3–5	Feature Article Mennonite Brethren Church Membership Profile, 1972-1982, Preface
Al Dueck J. B. Toews Abram G. Konrad 14/2 (1985): 6–10	Feature Article Mennonite Brethren Church Membership Profile, 1972-1982, Chapter 1
Al Dueck J. B. Toews Abram G. Konrad 14/2 (1985): 11–24	Feature Article Mennonite Brethren Church Membership Profile, 1972-1982, Chapter 2
Al Dueck J. B. Toews Abram G. Konrad 14/2 (1985): 25–42	Feature Article Mennonite Brethren Church Membership Profile, 1972-1982, Chapter 3
Al Dueck J. B. Toews Abram G. Konrad 14/2 (1985): 82–89	Feature Article Mennonite Brethren Church Membership Profile, 1972-1982, Conclusions and Implications
Hermann Hartfeld 12/4 (1983): 3–14	Feature Article The Suffering Church in Russia
Leslie E. Mark 12/2 (1983): 7–14	Feature Article The Role of the Church in a Pluralistic Society
Marvin L. Warkentin 12/2 (1983): 15–27	Feature Article Church Discipline in a Pluralistic Society
Frances F. Hiebert 11/3 (1982): 3–11	Feature Article Apples, Oranges, Anabaptists, and Mennonite Brethren
Marvin Hein 11/3 (1982): 12–19	Feature Article Retrieving the Conference “Glue”
David Ewert 11/3 (1982): 20–28	Feature Article Can We Have Diversity with Unity? Unity and Diversity in the Body of Christ
Howard J. Loewen 11/1 (1982): 9–18	Feature Article Biblical Faith and the Business World: The Crisis and the Challenge
George G. Konrad 11/1 (1982): 46–48	Feature Article Building Partnership and Trust [Perspective II]
Arno Wiebe 9/3 (1980): 24–30	Feature Article Spiritual Gifts in the Life and Work of the Church
Karen Neufeld 9/3 (1980): 31–35	Feature Article The Use of Statistics in an Annual Church Check-Up
Delbert L. Wiens 9/2 (1980): 3–17	Feature Article Mores, Morals, Morale and Hard Cases or “Whatever Happened to Consensus”
Jean Janzen 9/1 (1980): 3–6	Feature Article The Church Can Help Women Choose
David D. Block 8/4 (1979): 14–15	Feature Article Reports of Renewal: Renewal in Grant, Nebraska
Calvin Redekop 8/3 (1979): 3–13	Feature Article The Church’s Responsibility in the Marketplace
Arthur Jost 8/3 (1979): 14	Feature Article To Walk in One World
Carl Wohlgemuth 8/3 (1979): 15–16	Feature Article We Need to Hear About Pentecost
Henry J. Regehr 8/2 (1979): 10–18	Feature Article Leadership in the Church: A Sociological Perspective
Henry G. Krahn 7/3 (1978): 20–31	Feature Article The Silent Church in the Midst of Radical Change in China
Katie Funk Wiebe 7/3 (1978): 32–35	Feature Article The Para-Church Agencies and the Church in India
Peter M. Hamm 7/2 (1978): 3–14	Feature Article Economic Ascendancy and the Mission of the Church
L. W. Lockett 7/1 (1978): 11–17	Feature Article Bridging Social Walls
Dennis L. Langhofer 7/1 (1978): 26–34	Feature Article Ethics, the Businessman, and the Church
Marvin L. Warkentin 5/4 (1976): 22–23	Feature Article Thesis Abstracts: The Roles of the Elders in Church Leadership
Herbert Giesbrecht 5/1 (1976): 3–10	Feature Article In Search of Discipline: Ethical Covenants and Codes in the Local Church
John Regehr 5/1 (1976): 27–29	Hearing the Word The Body and Its Members
Sergio Negro 4/4 (1975): 355–65	Feature Article The Free Church Tradition and Church Renewal
V. George Shillington 4/3 (1975): 326–31	Feature Article The New Testament Church as Ekklesia
Norman Jost 4/3 (1975): 332–38	Feature Article Beehive, Bargain, or Brotherhood?
Hans Kasdorf 4/3 (1975): 339–46	Feature Article Reflections on the Church Concept of the Mennonite Brethren
Wesley J. Prieb 3/3 (1974): 249–52	Feature Article Trunks, Trails and Threshing Stones
Katie Funk Wiebe 1/3 (1972): 82–84	Feature Article Woman’s Freedom—The Church’s Necessity
Vern Ratzlaff 1/3 (1972): 85–91	Feature Article The Church and Changing Culture
George G. Konrad 1/2 (1972): 58–68	Feature Article A Review of Books on Church Renewal

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