Agreeing to disagree seems peace-loving, humble, tolerant. But many of us see an agree-to-disagree approach as dangerous on the matter of same-sex marriage.
Agreeing to disagree seems peace-loving, humble, tolerant. But many of us see an agree-to-disagree approach as dangerous on the matter of same-sex marriage.
In 2015, when a resolution called “Seeking Peace in Israel and Palestine” was proposed at the Mennonite Church USA convention, many of my Latino and Latina brothers and sisters went to the microphone to express their support for Israel. I was not surprised.
The events of Oct. 7 — the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — still dominate Israeli consciousness.
Each time they moved, shelling and bombing made them move again. The brutal reality was that there was no safe place to go.
“If you’ve never been there, why do you care?” Anna Johnson asked on our way from South Bend to Goshen, Ind., in a 12-passenger van to pick up the rest of our carpool heading to Washington, D.C., on a subzero January morning.
