What should pacifism look like today? The death of Mennonite Central Committee worker Glen Lapp in Afghanistan last August raises questions about pacifists working in
Sharon Kennel of Shickley, Neb., laughed
when she was approached by two people in 1999 about becoming a conference minister in what was then Iowa-Nebraska
Conference of the former Mennonite Church. “I laughed because I thought this was such an unlikely idea” …
We live in such a polarized world. The recent elections again revealed the polarization in which we live and the context in which our church and institutions minister. There is a better way …
Mennonite Church USA will face some significant challenges in 2011. At least one will come to a head early in the new year: deciding whether to change the location of the 2013 national convention. But there are other, equally troublesome issues confronting us all …
