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Risk/Return:

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Registrant Name

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PRAXIS MUTUAL FUNDS

Prospectus Date

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Apr. 30, 2015

Praxis Small Cap Fund

Risk/Return:

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Risk/Return [Heading]

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Praxis Small Cap Fund

Objective [Heading]

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Investment Objective

Objective, Primary [Text Block]

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The Small Cap Fund seeks to maximize long-term capital appreciation.

Expense [Heading]

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Fees and Expenses

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Praxis Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the section titled “Sales Charge Reductions” on page 55 of the Fund’s prospectus.

Shareholder Fees Caption [Text]

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Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination

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April 30, 2016

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover:

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]

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The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 73.67 percent of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate

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73.67%

Expense Breakpoint Discounts [Text]

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You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Praxis Mutual Funds.

Expense Breakpoint, Minimum Investment Required [Amount]

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50,000

Expense Example [Heading]

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Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time period indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5 percent return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Strategy [Heading]

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Principal Investment Strategies

Strategy Narrative [Text Block]

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The Fund attempts to achieve its objectives by primarily choosing investments that the Fund’s Sub-Adviser believes are likely to have above-average growth in revenue and/or earnings and potential for above-average capital appreciation. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80 percent of its assets in equity securities of smaller companies. These equity securities include common stocks, preferred stocks, and securities convertible into common stock, rights and warrants. Smaller companies are those with market values at the time of investment between $600 million and $4.5 billion. The Fund seeks to avoid companies that are deemed inconsistent with the stewardship investing core values.

The Sub-Adviser follows a long-term investment philosophy grounded in the fundamental analysis of individual companies. The Sub-Adviser’s primary approach to equity-related investing has two distinct but complementary components. First, the Sub-Adviser seeks to identify high quality companies based on various financial and fundamental criteria. Second, the Sub-Adviser invests in companies whose assets it has determined are undervalued in the marketplace. These include companies with tangible assets as well as companies that own valuable intangible assets. Both quantitative and qualitative factors are analyzed in identifying high quality companies as well as undervalued companies.

Stewardship Investing

The Fund also analyzes potential investments for their ability to reflect certain core social values including:

• Respecting the dignity and value of all people

• Building a world at peace and free from violence

• Demonstrating a concern for justice in a global society

• Exhibiting responsible management practices

• Supporting and involving communities

• Practicing environmental stewardship

Risk [Heading]

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Principal Investment Risks

Risk Narrative [Text Block]

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The Fund is subject to market risk, which means the value of the Fund’s shares will fluctuate based on market conditions and shareholders could lose money. The value of the Fund’s shares could decline significantly and unexpectedly, based on many factors, including national and international political or economic conditions and general market conditions. Events in the financial markets and in the broader economy may cause uncertainty and volatility, and may adversely affect Fund performance. Events in one market may impact other markets. Future events may impact the Fund in unforeseen ways. Traditionally liquid investments may experience periods of diminished liquidity. The Fund could underperform other investments. Because the value of the Fund’s investments will fluctuate with market conditions and interest rates, so will the value of your investment in the Fund. You could lose money on your investment in the Fund, or the Fund could underperform other investments. Some of the Fund’s holdings may underperform its other holdings.

The Fund is also subject to small capitalization company risk. Small capitalization companies may not have the size, resources or other assets of large capitalization companies. These small capitalization companies may be more vulnerable to economic, market and competitive pressures than larger companies and therefore may respond differently to market events, and may be subject to greater market risks and fluctuations in value than larger companies. The Fund is also subject to investment style risk, which is the chance that returns from small capitalization value stocks will trail returns from other asset classes or the overall stock market. Value stocks tend to go through cycles of doing better — or worse — than the stock market in general. In the past, these cycles have occasionally persisted for multiple years.

Risk Lose Money [Text]

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The Fund is subject to market risk, which means the value of the Fund’s shares will fluctuate based on market conditions and shareholders could lose money.

Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]

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FUND PERFORMANCE

Performance Narrative [Text Block]

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The bar chart and table that follow provide some indication of the risk of an investment in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Class A shares has varied from year to year since its inception. The returns in the bar chart do not reflect any applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower than those shown, as reflected in the table. The table shows how the Fund’s average annual total returns for different periods compared to those of a broad-based securities market index.

Please note that the Fund’s past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

The after-tax returns shown were calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates, and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. If you hold your Fund shares through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account, the after-tax returns are not relevant.

Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]

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The bar chart and table that follow provide some indication of the risk of an investment in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Class A shares has varied from year to year since its inception.

The table shows how the Fund’s average annual total returns for different periods compared to those of a broad-based securities market index.

Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]

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Please note that the Fund’s past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

Bar Chart [Heading]

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Class A — Annual Total Return Chart For the Periods Ended December 31, 2014

Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text]

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The returns in the bar chart do not reflect any applicable sales charges. If sales charges were included, returns would be lower than those shown, as reflected in the table.

Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]

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Best Quarter	Quarter Ended June 30, 2009	17.98%
Worst Quarter	Quarter Ended December 31, 2008	(28.06)%

Performance Table Heading

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Average Annual Total Returns
For the Periods Ended December 31, 2014

Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate

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The after-tax returns shown were calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates, and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.

Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred

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Actual after-tax returns depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. If you hold your Fund shares through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or individual retirement account, the after-tax returns are not relevant.

Praxis Small Cap Fund | Class A

Risk/Return:

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Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

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5.25%

Redemption fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed, if applicable)

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2.00%

Management fees

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0.85%

Distribution and Service (12b-1) fees

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0.25%

Other Expenses

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0.60%

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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1.70%

Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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(0.01%)

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement

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1.69%

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1 Year

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688

3 Years

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1,032

5 Years

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1,399

10 Years

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2,427

2008

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(39.05%)

2009

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29.73%

2010

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31.79%

2011

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5.63%

2012

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9.26%

2013

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34.63%

2014

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(4.11%)

Highest Quarterly Return, Label

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Best Quarter

Highest Quarterly Return, Date

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Jun. 30, 2009

Highest Quarterly Return

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17.98%

Lowest Quarterly Return, Label

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Worst Quarter

Lowest Quarterly Return, Date

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Dec. 31, 2008

Lowest Quarterly Return

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(28.06%)

Performance Table Does Reflect Sales Loads

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(with maximum sales charge)

1 Year

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(9.11%)

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5 Year

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13.22%

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Since Inception

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4.54%

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Inception Date

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May 01, 2007

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Praxis Small Cap Fund | Class I

Risk/Return:

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Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a percentage of offering price)

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none

Redemption fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed, if applicable)

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2.00%

Management fees

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0.85%

Distribution and Service (12b-1) fees

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none

Other Expenses

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0.17%

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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1.02%

Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement

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none

Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement

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1.02%

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1 Year

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104

3 Years

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325

5 Years

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563

10 Years

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1,248

1 Year

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(3.49%)

5 Year

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15.14%

Since Inception

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5.77%

Inception Date

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May 01, 2007

Praxis Small Cap Fund | Return After Taxes on Distributions | Class A

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(11.96%)

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5 Year

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11.94%

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Since Inception

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3.76%

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Inception Date

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May 01, 2007

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Praxis Small Cap Fund | Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | Class A

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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(2.76%)

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5 Year

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10.64%

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Since Inception

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3.59%

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Inception Date

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May 01, 2007

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Praxis Small Cap Fund | Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes) | Class A

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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4.90%

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5 Year

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15.54%

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Since Inception

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6.70%

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Inception Date

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May 01, 2007

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Praxis Small Cap Fund | Russell 2000 Index (reflects no deductions for fees, expenses or taxes) | Class I

Risk/Return:

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1 Year

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4.90%

5 Year

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15.54%

Since Inception

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6.70%

Inception Date

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May 01, 2007

[1] Includes indirect expenses of securities of other mutual funds held by the Fund, if any.

[2] Everence Capital Management, Inc. ("the Adviser") has entered into a contractual expense limitation agreement with respect to the Small Cap Fund Class A until April 30, 2016. Pursuant to this agreement, the Adviser has agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses to the extent necessary in order to limit the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding AFFE, brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, fees paid to vendors providing fair value pricing and fund compliance services, Trustees fees and expenses, legal fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses) of the Fund to 1.65 percent of the Fund's average daily net assets. The Fund has agreed to repay the Adviser for the amounts waived and/or reimbursed by the Adviser pursuant to this expense limitation agreement provided that such repayment does not cause the Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (excluding AFFE, brokerage costs, interest, taxes, dividends, fees paid to vendors providing fair value pricing and fund compliance services, Trustees fees and expenses, legal fees and expenses, and extraordinary expenses) to exceed 1.65 percent, and the repayment is made within three years after the year in which the Adviser waived and/or reimbursed the expense.

[3] (with maximum sales charge)