Statements of regret, confession and grief for harm done to LGBTQ people punctuate the report of the Membership Guidelines Advisory Group. Mennonite Church USA policies “have done violence to the personhood of LGBTQ people,” says the report, released Jan. 27.
A Mennonite Church USA advisory group is recommending “retiring” the denomination’s Membership Guidelines and adopting a “healing practice of nondiscrimination” regarding LGBTQ people.
The executive directors of Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and MCC Canada sent the following letter Jan. 9.
Laura Brenneman, a chaplain and a member of First Mennonite Church of Champaign-Urbana, Ill., has found the image of the church as a shield meaningful over the past six months.
An advisory group has been assigned to recommend how to decide the future of the Mennonite Church USA Membership Guidelines.
A history of division became a future of unity when Franconia Mennonite and Eastern District conferences held reconciliation votes Nov. 2 during joint assemblies at Souderton (Pa.) Mennonite Church. The vote created one of Mennonite Church USA’s biggest conferences — still without a name — and mends a split that took place in 1847.
Glendale, Ariz. — The Constituency Leaders Council of Mennonite Church USA heard plans for moving forward on addressing the denomination’s membership guidelines Oct. 17-18 at Trinity Mennonite Church.
