Church of the Brethren delegates will consider at this summer’s Annual Conference a resolution on immigration urging civil disobedience when government policies conflict with biblical teachings.
Acts of solidarity to support the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul took place at Canadian Mennonite University and Goshen College following violent and intimidating strategies used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in January.
With songs and signs, demonstrators at more than a dozen Target stores across the United States protested the chain’s accommodation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in February.
Thirst, that is what African American men and women in the U.S. were feeling in the 1950s and 1960s because of the discrimination and racism that they were experiencing.
I rarely wear a shirt with a clerical collar — or anything else that indicates I’m ordained clergy. In my little Mennonite congregation, everyone knows I’m their pastor, and besides, among the priesthood of all believers, we are all called, and I don’t want to look pretentious.
Members of a community cannot flourish when they are concerned about their safety or the security of their belongings.