"This assembly is free to adopt the rules it wants as long as the rules conform to the rules that are in place."—Jim Beitler, parliamentarian
Approximately 800 congregational and conference representatives met in the 2011 Delegate Assembly at Pittsburgh July 5-9. Four sessions on July 5 started with orientation to the week and introduction of the elements in this year’s gathering …
Pittsburgh 2011 began on July 4 with a joint worship service. Following a dramatization by Ted and Company of the Jerusalem council in Acts 15, Shane Hipps called on the thousands of adults and youth gathered to live by the higher virtue of reconciliation rather than by the divisions of those promoting either justice or purity …
When I first came from the Dominican Republic to live in the city of Miami, I was newly wed and in my early 20s. Adapting to a new country, culture and language was a major challenge …
Ten years ago to the month, delegates at Nashville 2001 voted to create Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. The 2001 delegate workbook offered an audacious look at the future of our new national church body. According to the document, “Imagining the Future: 2001 to 2011,” this is some of what 2011 was supposed to look like …
These words have been my screen saver for the last year. Whenever I stop typing for a few minutes, they scroll across the screen. They remind me that I am in an in-between place. They orient me. The time for departure is coming …
How quickly we forget our nation’s experience around racism! A good reminder of where we’ve been and the price many have paid along the way appeared on TV in May …
The following reflections come as a response to the article “Mission as Form of Exoticism” by Leo Hartshorn in the November 2010 issue. My responses are shaped by 25 years of experience in the Republic of Congo with Congo Inland Mission/Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission and another 12 in the home office in Elkhart, Ind. …
