“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” – Bayard Rustin On Monday, a narrow majority of the Standing Committee of the...

At the end of this month, the Church of the Brethren will gather for its Annual Conference. Here is the context in which we will gather:...

Today, BMC grieves with the Orlando lgbtq community, particularly the Latinx lgbtq community. We mourn a cultural context that gives rise...

In Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence, author Sara Moslener examines the evangelical purity movement in the United...

Bethel College (KS) Pride Week Convocation: April 11, 2016 On June 28, 1969, as police were filing patrons out of a gay bar in Greenwich...

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...

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...

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...

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

First of all – to all those who have reached out to me, to my family, and to the Bridgewater COB in love and care, whether you are “with”...

​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. ...

​My last semester at Goshen College, I took a class called congregational ministries taught by Keith Graber Miller. On the first and...

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

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

I've been very busy since starting seminary. Not just with school work, but also with acclimating to a new place and making new...

#Outspoken

Dear Ervin Stutzman, Grace and peace to you. I recently read your response to the "Rule of Love" letter. I was particularly struck by...

Pastor Chicago Community Mennonite Church Lancaster Welcoming Dialogue Group & Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests Eden Resort,...

In a moment of interesting coincidence, I noted with no small amount of irony that two members of the Church of the Brethren made...

Sermon Text for May 5, 2013 at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster. Biblical text: Acts 16, 9-15 When I rang the doorbell to...