Rising from Ramah, loud lament, Rachel, inconsolable, crying for her children— their bodies beaten, brutalized, burned, scattered across landscape; their lives carried away, taken captive,
The Vancouver Island University women’s basketball team refused to play a pair of games against Mennonite-affiliated Columbia Bible College in January because of alleged verbal and physical mistreatment of a transgender teammate by Columbia’s coach and players in October.
As the Mennonite Disaster Service family prays for and reaches out with care to fire survivors in Los Angeles, MDS volunteers are also helping fire survivors in Maui, Hawaii, by building safe housing and bringing a spirit of ohana, or extended family.
How has your faith shaped your experience of grief and led you to hope? Did the loss cause your faith to change?
