As a biracial woman who grew up in the historically African-American village of Harlem, N.Y., and was raised in a multicultural Mennonite congregation there, it
During the early 1980s, as Christians in Ethiopia faced severe persecution, the Meserete Kristos Church survived by shifting the primary focus of congregational life to
Two seemingly unrelated conversations keep colliding. The first included an explanation of how Mennonites are racist, how they speak of peace but don’t practice it
“It just takes common sense!” insists my longtime renter. “Why don’t people use common sense?” She was ranting about the outrageous remarks she likes to