In the week leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Mennonite Church USA asked a cross section of pastors across the country to share their concerns, community engagement activities and prayer requests.
You’re not alone, I’m with you, I’m lonely too
I was upset to read the quote from Sam Hochstetler: “I feel no hatred, bitterness, anger, nor revenge towards the two Black men that murdered my daughter-in-law.”
Marvin Lorenzana, a minister with Mennonite Mission Network of Mennonite Church USA, has been appointed president of Eastern Mennonite Missions. The EMM Board of Directors made the announcement Oct. 19.
Once, on a hike I discovered a single sandhill plum hanging beside the trail, tiny and ripe with some kind of meaning, nature’s haiku.
I write this several weeks before a presidential election that will determine the leader of a country more polarized than I have seen it in my thirty-some years of living.
Thank you for covering the tragic story of the Hochstetler family (Oct. 16) in Indiana. It has shaken this area with its several Amish and Mennonite communities.
Three. that is the number of times I have been baptized. One could say I took this Anabaptist thing a little too literally.