When Wesley Furlong first learned about Anabaptists, the discoveries broke his stereotypes. “There was such a crazy boldness when I had assumed a sheer passivity,
The event, “Reimagining New Life Together,” attracted about 170 people, largely former or current members of MC USA from Ohio, Indiana-Michigan . . .
“It’s quite clear now this is not one issue, it’s a package,” said Kanagy, a sociology professor at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College who directed MC USA’s survey of credentialed leaders.
“A variable can be a proxy for a number of variables. It . . .
Taylor Dwyer-Zeman, Katerina Friesen and Sandra Stevens participated in the Nov. 21-22 march on the Stewart Detention . . .
Five years after a devastating earthquake tore across Port-au-Prince . . .
Craig Friesen and Matt Wiens held a ceremony with family, friends and their church community at Osler (Sask.) Mennonite Church, where Friesen grew up and is a member.
The survey, conducted by Elizabethtown (Pa.) College sociology professor Conrad Kanagy in August, was released Jan. 5 by the MC USA Executive Board.
Then, in 1992, reports of Yoder’s sexual harassment and abuse of women appeared in Mennonite publications and the secular media.
But the story was far from complete. As the years passed and Yoder’s theology attracted a new generation of readers, church leaders heard calls for a full accounting of the facts — including recognition of institutional failures to deal decisively with the problem.
