Kirstin De Mello

The residents of Tehran woke on March 8 to thick, black smoke engulfing their city after the Israeli military bombed fuel depots. The immediate human and environmental impacts of the war were disturbingly evident, but what about the broader climate impact?

A small group of Anabaptists celebrated Earth Month on April 10 in Washington, D.C., by urging U.S. legislators to protect federal clean energy tax credits and urban community forestry grants. Many of these grants benefit churches and low-income communities and are at risk of being cut in an upcoming budget bill. Mennonite Central Committee hosted the advocacy day in its Washington, D.C., office, with Anabaptist Climate Collaborative co-leading.

GOSHEN — Alina Bergstresser, an 11th-grade student at Bethany Christian Schools in Goshen, won grand prize in the annual Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries public policy essay contest. Olivia Renze, a senior at Bethany Christian Schools, and Simeon Spurrier, a 10th-grader at Lancaster Mennonite School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, received honorable mentions for their essays.