On Feb. 11, Mennonite Church USA joined with 26 other religious groups in a lawsuit against the federal government. The suit challenges the Trump administration’s decision to reverse the Department of Homeland Security’s “sensitive locations” policy that had restricted Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting immigration raids at houses of worship.
Anger is a messenger. In Rachel Yoder’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Nightbitch, the protagonist’s anger is a relentless messenger, a primal drumbeat. It pushes as she fumbles to hear it, channel it and follow it to unimagined possibilities.
The January issue of Anabaptist World reminded me of the date of the first Anabaptist baptisms 500 years ago: Jan. 21. I realized this was also Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the day after the U.S. presidential inauguration.
Mennonites in Virginia’s Rockingham County range from the Old Order buggy-driving community to Eastern Mennonite University’s liberal arts university community, and everything between.
