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In this issue theme, we are looking for stories of what congregations are doing to promote biblical literacy through Bible study or other forms of communal teaching and discernment.
For Willow Avenue Mennonite Church, a Mennonite Brethren congregation in Fresno, Calif., the path to becoming an LGBTQ-affirming congregation began decades ago — and is now leading them out of the USMB conference.
In the silence between the warnings of air raid sirens, the sound of a small choir echoed out of a church sanctuary in western Ukraine. Just the night before, Anna, administrative coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee Ukraine, had hummed a few bars of the song during an evening tea break at the church.
At the end of the first evening of “From Chaos to Shalom: Exploring Peace Theology Together,” emcees Andios Santoso and Joe Sawatzky struggled to wrap up the Zoom session. The concluding prayer had been spoken. But none of the nearly 100 attendees wanted to sign off quite yet.
