LMC lets women be bishops, but with a restriction that falls short of equality
Mennonite Central Committee British Columbia and Mennonite Disaster Service Canada have entered a partnership to respond to floods that hit the West Coast province in November.
Twenty years ago last fall, Ruth Yoder Wenger was licensed by Lancaster Mennonite Conference to serve as lead pastor of North Bronx Mennonite Church in New York City. Wenger’s licensing was one of several that have defined the presence of women in ministerial roles in the conference, now known as LMC, over the last few decades.
After voting to welcome and affirm LGBTQ people, a Mennonite Brethren congregation in California is waiting to see how its district will terminate its membership.
Joren Basumata, 80, former leader of Bharatiya Jukta Christa Prachar Mandali (Indian United Christ Evangelistic Church, or BJCPM) died Oct. 15.
The man convicted in October of kidnapping and murdering a New Mexico Mennonite woman was sentenced to life in prison two years after committing the crimes.
About 50 people were sentenced to death Jan. 29 in the Democratic Republic of Congo in connection to the 2017 murders of United Nations investigators Michael J. Sharp and Zaida Catalán.
Tornado survivors in Mayfield, Ky., worked alongside volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service as they hauled away the heaviest debris in freezing temperatures in January.
The Schowalter Foundation has awarded two grants to the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board — $15,000 for internships and $30,000 to support investigations of pastoral misconduct and abuse.
Middle Schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus at Pine Ridge, S.D., and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue.
