Conversations between Mennonite Central Committee’s U.S. and Canadian boards and two former service workers resulted in further harm, according to the consultants who facilitated the 14-month process.
Conversations between Mennonite Central Committee’s U.S. and Canadian boards and two former service workers resulted in further harm, according to the consultants who facilitated the 14-month process.
Last week, I stepped out of the classroom with twenty of my Wiyata Wacana seminary students from Pati, Java. We left our books behind and embarked on a pilgrimage — by motorcycle — along the north coast of Java, from Pati to Jepara. Why a pilgrimage? Because history learned through the soles of your feet feels different.
“What might have been an abstract policy decision that’s taking place in Washington now is actually impacting communities,” said Walter Kim, head of the National Association of Evangelicals.
A fellow Bethel College alum once told me he “would rather have 50 2% solutions than two 50% solutions.” I think there’s wisdom in this idea — wisdom we can apply to economic and racial justice.
As the war with Iran unravels, it is as if a bulldozer is scraping together memories of my time in Iran and is dumping them out chunk by chunk for me to contemplate.
