Brethren, too. Also, Black. It’s complicated, and I can live with that.
It’s normal for children to outgrow their parents, the leader of the world’s largest Anabaptist communion said July 1, encouraging his North American counterparts.
On the anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling reinstating the US death penalty, faith leaders, those affected by murder and activists organize to call for an end to the death penalty. But religion has also been present in support for capital punishment.
Church of the Brethren delegates will consider at this summer’s Annual Conference a resolution on immigration urging civil disobedience when government policies conflict with biblical teachings.
The Church of the Brethren and other members of Church World Service condemned White House efforts to abandon the U.S. Refugee Program in an Oct. 22 statement.
I’ve always been a small-church person. A church, for me, is a place where you know almost everyone by name. This was true for me growing up, except that all the little old ladies looked the same. (Was that Mrs. Peter Toews or Mrs. Henry Janzen?)
Sharon Norton has been hired by the Church of the Brethren as executive director of Global Mission and will begin Dec. 2.
