Henderson Mennonite Heritage Museum and Park in Nebraska celebrated the grand opening of an exhibit about pacifists’ stories May 23.
Henderson Mennonite Heritage Museum and Park in Nebraska celebrated the grand opening of an exhibit about pacifists’ stories May 23.
First Mennonite Church in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., is sharing its story about being an inclusive congregation embracing LGBTQ people in a video available online.
The Women in Leadership ministry of Mennonite Church USA has released a Bible-based curriculum that explores the roots of patriarchy — a social structure in which men hold power.
Leaders within Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA released a statement encouraging forbearance concerning ministerial credentialing at the conference’s March 6 annual assembly, a year after the conference passed a resolution committing to a year of study while neither removing nor conferring credentials to pastors in same-sex marriages.
For years, Mennonite Church USA convention planners have wanted to offer an online option. The pandemic is pushing the convention across the virtual frontier, with in-person attendance expected to fall far below previous years for the July 6-10 event in Cincinnati.
It was standard practice a century ago in Minneapolis to forbid people of color from living in desirable neighborhoods. Racially exclusive covenants still exist, buried in legalese and decades of history. In recent months, property owners have teamed up with city officials to eliminate the problematic wording.
