March 5, 2015 | Anabaptist World

Oregon school, conference facing $5.5 million lawsuit

A former student of Western Mennonite School in Salem, Ore., has filed a lawsuit seeking $5.5 million in damages from the school and Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA.

The student was sexually abused by a teacher, Matthew David Yoder, who pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree sex abuse in March 2014. He was sentenced to 32 months in prison.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

March 5, 2015

Lancaster Mennonite School acquires Hershey school

Lancaster (Pa.) Mennonite School acquired a nondenominational private school in late February, the fourth school to join the system since 2002.

LMS superintendent Richard Thomas said the opportunity came as a surprise.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

March 5, 2015

You lost me: Young adults and the church

Earlier this month, I was one of many who gathered in the new Marpeck Commons building at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Man., to hear

Susie Guenther Loewen

March 5, 2015