If a congregation, school or conference drops “Mennonite” from their name, they no longer have to explain who they are not (“So you’re Mennonite, huh?,” May 6). “Anabaptist” is a sensible name.
I’m grateful for the Salt & Light Bible study series (“Freedom to be distinctively Anabaptist,” May 27) developed by a team of Mennonite and United Methodist Bible scholars and educators.
Mennonite Central Committee is selling the home of its Winnipeg, Man., offices in exchange for spaces that better suit its needs.
I appreciated Jacob Lupfer’s article on Harry Emerson Fosdick’s 1922 sermon, “Shall the fundamentalists win?” (“100 years on, Fosdick’s question still echoes,” June 17).
Saying its humanitarian work before and during the Second World War did not always reflect its core values, Mennonite Central Committee has issued a statement saying it “grieves and repents of the harm caused by MCC’s actions and inactions during this period” when the organization became entangled with National Socialism (Nazism).
Doug Mastriano deserves no publicity in a Mennonite publication (“Pa. governor nominee linked to CMC church, right-wing politics,” June 17).
I would have preferred simply retiring the guidelines at the Mennonite Church USA special assembly (“Membership Guidelines repealed; LGBTQ-affirming resolution approved,” June 17).