Sherah-Leigh Gerber, a regional pastor in Ohio Conference of Mennonite Church USA, has resigned after less than a year in the role, partly due to “patriarchy and sexism” she experienced, the conference announced Nov. 3.
Sherah-Leigh Gerber, a regional pastor in Ohio Conference of Mennonite Church USA, has resigned after less than a year in the role, partly due to “patriarchy and sexism” she experienced, the conference announced Nov. 3.
The Oct. 14 issue (“Digital technologies: threat to Amish life?”) is an example of why some of the Amish survivors I’ve met in my line of work have absolute red-hot rage at “mainstream” Mennonites.
Each summer for the last four years, a community on the outskirts of Soacha, Colombia, has gathered to watch its children play in their own, local version of the World Cup — a soccer tournament for peace.
My congregation, Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite Church, has changed from a membership of 380 in the 1950s to an attendance of 35 nowadays.
The incarnation. Advent is a celebration of the incarnation, of God who became human flesh in Jesus Christ.
Contemplation has been described to me as a long, loving look at the real. In my spiritual-direction training, I get to do a good bit of this.
Growing up in a Christian -family in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country, I didn’t often see Christmas decorations except in church.
