At least 10 congregations have left Mennonite Church USA this year, many as a result of disagreements over LGBT inclusion. Clinton Brick Mennonite Church, in Goshen,
Three months later, Kratz is in the World Series.
“I wish I could put it into words,” he said by phone Oct. 17 while feeding his son oatmeal on a day off. “I think it is something that any kid that’s played baseball and followed a team — wherever it is you grew up — you’ve dreamt, you’ve pretended in the backyard to be . . .
The destination he reached — a revolution of simplicity and repentance for collusion with worldly powers — is outlined in his new book, Radical Spirituality: Repentance, Resistance, Revolution (Orbis).
Storbakken is cofounder with his wife, Vonetta, of the Radical Living Christian community in Brooklyn, N.Y., and chapel director of The Bowery Mission, which serves homeless people. He is ordained through Mennonite Church USA’s Atlantic Coast Conference, where the Radical Living intentional community is a member.
