Messenger magazine and the Communications department of the Church of the Brethren received six awards—three awards of excellence, one award of merit, and two honorable mentions—in the Associated Church Press 2025 “Best of the Church Press” contest.
Wendy McFadden will retire on July 31 as publisher of Brethren Press and executive director of Communications for the Church of the Brethren, after almost 45 years of service to the denomination.
Messenger, the Church of the Brethren magazine, received three awards–an award of excellence, an award of merit, and an honorable mention–from the Associated Church Press in the 2024 “Best of the Church Press” contest.
“This is one of my soapbox topics,” said Audri Svay, a pastor at Eel River Church of the Brethren in Indiana. Her soapbox was planted firmly in the title of her talk at the Brethren Press and Messenger dinner: “The Power of Words to Form Identity.”
Jennifer Keeney Scarr shares dramatic retellings of Bible stories at the July 6, 2023 Brethren Press/Messenger dinner.
At this year’s Associated Church Press convention, the Church of the Brethren’s Messenger magazine won four awards including the James Solheim Award for Editorial Courage, Award of Excellence, for “If Only that Were True” by Gimbiya Kettering, published in the Sept. 2022 issue.
Messenger has received five awards from the Associated Church Press for publishing in 2021, including an Award of Merit, Best in Class for Denominational or Other Special Interest Magazine.
The 50th annual Dunker Church Service at the old Brethren meetinghouse on the Antietam battlefield will be virtual this year, and available to view online. Brethren Press and “Messenger” magazine publisher Wendy McFadden is the featured speaker and will share a message on “The Wounds of War and a Place for Peace.” The Dunker meetinghouse
New from Messenger magazine: Dr. Kathryn Jacobsen, a member of Oakton Church of the Brethren in Vienna, Va., and a professor of epidemiology and global health at George Mason University, has given an interview to the Church of the Brethren “Messenger” magazine, answering questions about the COVID-19 pandemic with down-to-earth and sensible responses. The interview addresses
— “We want to recognize your seniors! Tell us who they are and send a picture!” said an invitation from “Messenger” magazine and the Youth and Young Adult Ministry. This is an effort to give special recognition to the high school and college/university classes of 2020, who because of the pandemic are missing out on many beloved,
