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Opinion: No pink in MWC’s rainbow

We found much to love about the Mennonite World Conference assembly in Harrisburg, Pa., in July. Spectacular music complemented thought-provoking speakers. Diverse Mennonites discussed justice

Lisa Schirch | Jacob Mack-Boll

September 14, 2015

Dear church: Be a place that embraces

I entered Elizabethtown (Pa.) Mennonite Church on Aug. 27 with trepidation, unsure of how the "Listening and Vision Casting" meeting process would unfold or how comfortable

Amanda Arbour

September 2, 2015

Opinion: The stake in federal aid

The Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage may have placed many Christian colleges on a collision course with their largest funding partner — the U.S.

D. Merrill Ewert | Patricia A. Anderson

August 31, 2015

Evana Network covenant describes what’s expected

Pastors and members of the leadership board of congregations that join Evana Network, a new evangelical Anabaptist group, will need to sign its “personal covenant.”

Individuals can also join by signing the . . .

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

August 31, 2015

Colleges’ decisions shake up their peers

Decisions by two Mennonite Church USA colleges to expand their nondiscrimination policies to include employees in same-sex marriages have caused a stir in Christian higher education.

Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. . . .

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

August 27, 2015

Ungodly conference

I found the Mennonite USA Convention to be very sad. I saw people crying out for acceptance and unity but not prepared to do anything

Letters

August 17, 2015

The children are watching

Young people got a chance to stand before the main microphone every day at the Mennonite World Conference assembly, and they made the most of

Tim Huber

August 3, 2015

North Central Conference to withdraw from MC USA

North Central Conference of Mennonite Church USA will begin a yearlong process of withdrawing its membership from the denomination. A motion was passed by the

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

July 30, 2015

Central District licenses Ohio pastor in same-sex relationship

Central District Conference licensed Mark Rupp for ministry at Columbus (Ohio) Mennonite Church on July 26. Rupp is the second Mennonite Church USA pastor in a committed same-sex partnership to be credentialed.

According to a resolution passed at MC USA’s national delegate assembly July 2, Central District is now at variance with the denomination.

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

July 28, 2015

A temple called “unity”

Walter Brueggeman describes the moment when David offers to build God a house as the balance point of David’s “glad yielding and manipulative utility” (2

Melissa Florer-Bixler

July 28, 2015