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Theda Good Ordained

It is an honor to be here and represent the larger BMC community. This seems a beautiful way to end BMC’s 40th Anniversary year; it just...

Loving the tradition from the margins: What Malcolm Gladwell is missing about power in his Mennonite

This article was originally posted on Pink Menno's blog. Chester Wenger’s “An open letter to my beloved church” in 2014 was a beautiful,...

Open Letter to Constituency Leaders Council of MC USA

It was recently reported that BMC had declined an invitation from the CLC to have an lgbtq person at each table for “dialogue.” Here’s...

Coming home to our bodies: trauma and justice

My senior year of high school, I was talking to a school counselor about an experience I had earlier that year with another classmate. As...

Pacifist Battlegrounds: The Struggle for Queer Inclusion in a Peace Church

Bethel College Convocation, November 16, 2015 On June 26 of this past summer, at my dining room table with my spouse and several of our...

Historically-Grounded Organizing: A Reflection on Stonewall

When the trailer for the Hollywood-produced movie “Stonewall” was released this past August, activists on the internet took to...

Untethered...Reflections on Kansas City

Losing faith is not the same as losing belief, but it can break the fragile tether between a person and her innocence just the same. ...

A Ruptured Circle

It was a neat and nearly perfect circle of deniability. Denominational leaders would grimace and carefully explain to us how the church...

A Pastor's Response

Response to IMMC Statement of Charge against Karl Shelly Greetings to you, sisters and brothers in Christ on the IMMC Ministry...

Living Side By Side With Difference

"Living Side By Side With Difference" was written for and presented at Central Plains Conference (Mennonite Church USA) Leadership...