Barry Bartel is an attorney in Denver, Colorado, a member of Glennon Heights Mennonite Church in Lakewood, and a member of the conference’s Dialogue Resource
Mennonite men can cook, too. There’s a cookbook that says so. Goshen, Ind., resident Willard Roth has compiled his favorite recipes and gathered his guy friends to add to the collection. The result is a glossy, 300-plus-page book — Mennonite Men Can Cook, Too, published by Good Books — that can hold its own not only in the kitchen but as a coffee table conversation starter.
The 630-square-mile island is home to about 85,000 residents but sits far closer to Turkey than Greece. Lesbos is only four to five miles from the Turkish coast at its closest points.
“We would hear, ‘Oh, if you guys tackle social justice issues, would you ever talk about the conflict of sexuality in the church?’ ” Wideman said. “We heard that time after time after time.”
