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Meghan Larissa Good is teaching pastor at Trinity Mennonite Church, Glendale, Arizona, and author of "The Bible Unwrapped: Making Sense of Scripture Today." Meghan is a worship speaker for MennoCon19. She recently completed a D.Min. at Portland Seminary, where she received the Buechner Award for Excellence in Preaching. Her doctoral research focused on the nature of biblical authority and the way the Western church’s relationship with Scripture has shifted through different historical eras. In Meghan’s free time she likes to write and travel around the country helping people rediscover the dazzling story of God. Meghan loves stories. And Jesus. And...
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Over the next few months we’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. Marta Castillo is a leadership minister for Intercultural Formation in Franconia Conference. The daughter of Franconia Conference-rooted mission workers, she has been shaped by all four of the linguistic cultures in Franconia Conference growing up in both Vietnam and Indonesia. While being a primary English speaker she lives in a bilingual...
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Zachary Martinez is the pastor of Sojourn Mennonite Church in Fort Collins and Greeley, Colorado. He lives with his family in Greeley, where he likes to garden, ride his bike and patronize local breweries and coffee shops. His work has appeared in The Mennonite, the Sun Magazine, and other publications. The first hailstorm of the summer was on my birthday. I celebrated by watching nickel sized stones pummel my beloved garden. Most of these plants I’d cared for from seeds. I moved my dining room table, where I placed my seedlings, next to our glass door so the sunlight could...
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Ruth Harder is the pastor at Rainbow Mennonite Church in Kansas City, Kansas. She grew up in Hillsboro, Kansas and is a graduate of Bethel College and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Ruth is married to Jesse Graber, a free-lance illustrator. You will find at least one of them running by a Kansas City fountain. “The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.” Proverbs 18:4 When I plan my weekly running routes, I make it a point to include one of Kansas City’s 500 fountains in my route, not so much to drink out of, but because it’s an interesting, maybe...
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The Women in Leadership Project (WLP) is an initiative to empower women, in the fullness of who God created them to be, to live out their call in their local congregations and conferences across Mennonite Church USA and to actively contribute to our shared theology. The WLP works to dismantle patriarchy, in all its forms, within the denomination. A six-member steering committee guides and contributes to the work of the WLP. In February 2017, three new members accepted the invitation to join the committee, working together with experienced members Erica Littlewolf, Linda Gehman Peachey and Regina Shands Stoltzfus. Chantelle Todman...
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Nancy Kauffmann is denominational minister for Mennonite Church USA. Jason Kauffman is director of the Archives. This post is based on a statement they presented together on behalf of Mennonite Church USA on April 22, for Indiana Indian Day in Rochester, Indiana. To understand more about this one-time event and Mennonites' connection to it, read the Mennonite Church USA news story. CONFESSION: We are here to represent Mennonite Church USA. Please know that we humbly stand before you to confess to you, the Potawatomi and the Miami people, our shortcomings and blindness to the atrocities done to your ancestors...
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Tonya Ramer Wenger is Magdalena, Micah, Reuben and Joanna’s mom, Jonathan’s wife, and currently serves as lead pastor at First Mennonite Church in Hutchinson Kansas. Walking, knitting, baking bread, singing with a seasonal community choir and reading books to Joanna are all things that fill her non-working time. If you are looking for some bedtime reading material, right now she and Joanna highly recommend Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. This post originally appeared on Mennonite Church USA's convention blog. Our almost four year old daughter Joanna, the youngest of four kids in our family, still talks about going to “childcare.” She’s been...
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Beryl Jantzi serves as the director of Stewardship Education for Everence. Everence is a faith based financial services organization which promotes stewardship practices for Mennonite Church USA and other Anabaptist organizations. You can surf the internet and find a wide range of responses to a biblical view of stewardship. Following are four principles that reflect the values and marks of Anabaptism. Clearly, more could be added but as a chair rests on four legs, so too these theological marks identify what I believe to be core beliefs upon which other commitments are built. We believe that God is the creator...
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Allie Shoup is an admissions counselor at Hesston College, where she shares her love for education with young people searching for the perfect place to belong. She is a born and raised Wichitan (of Wichita, Kansas) whose heart for people and adventure has taken her to five continents. Since attending Bethel College as a Bible and Religion major, Allie now lives in Newton, Kansas with her husband Will (pictured) and their lively house plants, where their days are filled with board games, cups of tea, folk music and the company of friends. In the summer of 2015 I attended the...
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Clayton Gladish has served as one of the pastors of Hesston Mennonite Church for over three years. His passions include faith formation, biblical studies, and creating compassionate communities. He rarely turns down a good burger or the chance to play games with friends. He sometimes strives for perfection, but would rather have opportunities to learn and laugh with others along the way. This post originally appeared on the Mennonite Church USA convention website. Registration is now open for #MennoCon17. Register here. Convention is a uniquely important time in the life of our high school youth group. With busy schedules, it’s...
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First leadership conference for youth of color draws more than 400 participants Glen Alexander Guyton is chief operating officer for Mennonite Church USA. Culture Shock kicked off Friday night, Aug. 28, 2016, with close to 400 youth, young adults and parents in a high-energy worship service that included dynamic music and a comedian, KevOnStage, who poked fun at culture, community rituals and church traditions that in the moment generate high emotion but often leave us empty after we walk. The young people and youth sponsors who attended Culture Shock definitely did not walk away from the weekend empty. They walked...
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This is the second in a blog series from participants in Hope for the Future (HFF), a gathering of people of color serving in leadership positions across Mennonite Church USA. HFF gatherings began in 2012 and initially served to create space for mutual support among people of color in Mennonite Church USA institutions and agencies. In recent years there’s been an increased urgency to see change within our organizations — to see intentionality among our institutions to make space for people of color — culturally, interpersonally, systemically. In 2015, white leaders across the denomination were invited to the gathering as participants engaged in discussions around power. HFF 2016...
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Anna Groff began as executive director of Dove’s Nest on August 1. She works from her home in Tucson, Arizona, where she lives with her husband, Brian Miller, and one-year-old daughter, Ella. I am aware that some families and religious groups use the Bible to justify -- even encourage -- corporal punishment. In fact, according to the 2012 General Social Survey, 80 percent of born-again Christians say spanking is okay. These individuals may refer to passages in Proverbs, such as “Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children. Those who love their children care enough to discipline them” (13:24)...
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