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Impossible dream?

Are Mennonites trying to do the impossible? Maybe, but we shouldn’t give up. We are just beginning to test new ways to live with disagreement

Paul Schrag

September 12, 2016

Bearing good fruit

Thank you for “Gay and Welcome” by JB Miller (At the Table, Aug. 29). I affirm that the gospel soil at Covenant Mennonite Fellowship in

Letters

September 12, 2016

Conversations in tension

In the days after the June 12 shooting that took 50 lives at an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Fla., there were myriad news reports about

Tim Huber

August 29, 2016

Heavenly tablecloths with fresh ideas

Peter is hungry and goes to pray. A vision of unclean food, arranged on a heavenly tablecloth, appears. He is invited to eat. Peter, the

Jane Yoder-Short

August 1, 2016

Scripture in context

When an outstanding young pastor like Isaac Villegas has his credentials suspended (“MC USA Board Member Resigns After Same-Sex Wedding,” June 6) by Virginia Mennonite Conference and

Letters

July 4, 2016

Try something different

Perhaps those who are trying to change the Mennonite church to conform to their idea of how church should be should try something different. How

Letters

July 4, 2016

Maryland church celebrates 30 years of LGBTQ inclusion

HYATTSVILLE, Md. — Hyattsville Mennonite Church celebrated 30 years of welcome to LGBTQ people on June 12. More than 170 members and friends gathered to mark Hyattsville’s anniversary of official inclusion to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer members.

Kate Stoltzfus

June 29, 2016

Self-inflicted wound

“Physician, heal yourself!” Jesus expected that the skeptics would hurl this challenge when he announced God’s reign of peace (Luke 4:23). Today, Mennonite Church USA

Paul Schrag

June 20, 2016

Not our own authority

I have read MWR most of my adult life. Only in recent decades have these pages reported serious disagreement on appropriate sexual behavior. Opposite positions

Letters

June 20, 2016

Passive bystanders facilitate hate

Things whose existence is not morally possible cannot exist. — Old German Proverb In his book States of Denial, Stanley Coheni writes about the deadly triangle

Ruth E. Krall

June 14, 2016