Unity and division crossed paths in Pennsylvania this summer as Harrisburg hosted the Mennonite World Conference assembly and Lancaster Mennonite Conference moved to leave Mennonite Church USA. Word of Lancaster’s proposed withdrawal spread during MWC’s weeklong celebration of global fellowship. The timing heightened the sense of contrast between Anabaptists drawing closer across national borders and splitting apart within one of them.
Mennonite World Review
Bluffton (Ohio) University has become the third Mennonite college this year to leave the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities after expanding its nondiscrimination hiring policy. The Bluffton board of trustees voted unanimously Oct. 10 to include sexual orientation and gender identity in its employment policy.
