The Mennonite name for churches may or may not be efficacious (“By any other name,” May 6). I can give a personal witness from a
Mennonite Church USA has named Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz as denominational minister for peace and justice, starting May 23.
Germany is home to thousands of Russlanddeutsche (Germans from Russia), many of them of Mennonite background, who immigrated since the 1970s from the former Soviet Union.
While pledges of welcome to refugees of the war in Ukraine fill U.S. headlines, churches and institutions are quietly working to resettle and acclimate households fleeing other longstanding conflicts, one family at a time.
