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MC USA convention speakers announced

Mennonite Church USA announced its worship speakers for next summer’s Kansas City, Mo., convention Nov. 14 in the KC 2015 convention newsletter. Mennonite Central Committee

Mennonite World Review staff

November 24, 2014

Immigrants persist in prayer, and healing follows

LOWVILLE, N.Y. — An intensive-care unit lacked a few key components to heal a critically injured patient until help arrived from an immigrant church in Buffalo.

Beth Steria of Lowville was seriously injured in a Feb. 19 car accident that took the life of her husband, Perry. She was airlifted to a hospital in Syracuse, where it was determined she had broken . . .

Anne Siegrist | For Mennonite World Review

November 24, 2014

‘Regulation garb’ and the gospel

In February 1959, Chester Wenger and fellow missionaries in Ethiopia — wearing business suits and neckties — met a delegation of Lancaster Mennonite Conference leaders

John E. Sharp

November 24, 2014

Travail and counsel

The church is in pain and feels travail like the earliest church did when it discerned God’s will about the inclusion of Gentiles and circumcision.

Rachel Stella

November 24, 2014

We need help discerning what are disputable matters

My church, Mennonite Church USA, like many denominations, is in a state of crisis over an issue I never thought would become a subject of

Harvey Yoder

November 21, 2014

Western District weighs congregational freedom

MOUNDRIDGE, Kan. — Congregational freedom is a tradition in Western District Conference. Now the conference needs to decide how that tradition applies when issues of same-sex relationships test the denomination’s unity.

More than 140 people from 29 churches met Nov. 15 at Eden Mennonite Church to discuss that question and to consider the findings of a survey on same-sex unions and church governance.

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

November 17, 2014

An open letter to the Mennonite family

We are Richard and Jewel (Wenger) Showalter. As church planters, missionaries, educators, mission administrators, parents and now grandparents, we have walked as part of the

Jewel Showalter | Richard Showalter

November 14, 2014

Lancaster Conference terminates retired pastor’s credentials

Mennonite Church USA’s Lancaster Mennonite Conference has removed the ministerial credentials of a retired pastor for officiating a same-sex marriage.

Chester Wenger, a 96-year-old retired missionary and minister from Lancaster, Pa., signed the marriage certificate for his son, Philip Wenger, and his partner, Steve Dinnocenti, after Pennsylvania legalized same-sex marriage in May.

Lancaster Conference is the first area conference to terminate ministerial credentials for officiating a same-sex wedding.

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

November 10, 2014

An open letter to my beloved Mennonite Church

I am profoundly reluctant to write this letter because I know there are those it will wound deeply. But I have also come to the

Chester Wenger

November 10, 2014

Parable of the vow

A woman discovered her husband was having an affair. He agreed to visit a marriage counselor. The wife longed to reconcile if her husband would

Rachel Stella

November 10, 2014