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Board’s resolution ‘tests’ Membership Guidelines

Announcing a new resolution for delegates May 4, the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board says it is “testing the status” of the denomination’s Membership Guidelines.

The resolution asks delegates at the June 30-July 5 convention in Kansas City to reaffirm the Guidelines and the . . .

Mennonite Church USA | Mennonite World Review staff

May 4, 2015

Listen to Jesus

Excluding LGBT people has become the main default agenda of some Mennonite congregations. The recently announced new fellowship of congregations appears to have fallen in

Rachel Stella

April 27, 2015

Indiana-Michigan cites Goshen pastor’s ‘variance’ for same-sex ceremony

Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference has identified a Goshen, Ind., pastor as at variance with its teaching position for officiating a same-sex covenant ceremony. The pastor, Karl

Kelli Yoder | Mennonite World Review

April 22, 2015

The test question for your church

We tend to measure the “success” of a church by numbers. I propose in A Fellowship of Differents another way of measuring whether or not

Scot McKnight

April 16, 2015

Canadian MB response to same-sex wedding: it wasn’t us

Canadian Mennonite Brethren leaders needed to clear up confusion about whether their denomination was involved in a same-sex wedding. Responding to numerous inquiries, the leaders,

Mennonite World Review staff

April 13, 2015

MC USA council endorses unity statement

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Conservative, progressive or a call for unity and tolerance?

That was the question for the Mennonite Church USA Constituency Leaders Council as its members weighed three proposed resolutions on sexuality and church polity.

They chose the call for unity and tolerance.

Paul Schrag | Mennonite World Review

March 30, 2015

Biblical families

Jim Powers (Letters, March 2) asserts that “the written word of God is clear on sex, family [and] roles in the church.” However, family and

Rachel Stella

March 30, 2015

Whose lifestyle?

Mike Combs rightly denounces the term “homosexual lifestyle” (Letters, March 16). I don’t know what writers mean when they use that term, but I am

Rachel Stella

March 30, 2015

Opinion: Christ-centered unity is still possible

Mennonite Church USA faces the pivotal question of what unites us and what divides. The dominant issue in our time is acceptance of gay and

John M. Miller

March 30, 2015

Learning to leave well

We need to find a new way to talk about the congregations that are leaving Mennonite Church USA: They’re not leaving us; we’re getting divorced.

Hillary Watson

March 27, 2015