A basket of cloth strips used to symbolize Yoder's victims' pain. It was used in the morning service and left out for display in the afternoon.
Fundamentalism has taught conservative Mennonites to be spiritual abusers and to feel good about it,” Weaver, a Beachy Amish minister, told an assembly of theologically and culturally conservative Amish, Mennonites and Hutterites meeting near Nappanee March 12-14.
Maitland, the pastor of Bethel Mennonite Church in Mandeville, had just finished delivering an impassioned sermon when he sat down next to his wife, according to Lynn Suter, who attended in her role as director of operations and international ministries of Virginia Mennonite Missions.
“He was fairly immediately in distress. His wife put her arms around him to . . .
