Mennonite World Conference doesn’t happen every day. In fact, it’s held only once every six years, and it rotates among five continents. That means that the event is located in North America only once every thirty years. So our young family with four young children went to great lengths to attend the international assembly several weeks ago in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. We joined over 7,000 Mennonites from around the world.
The gathering was sobering. Just weeks earlier, Mennonite Church USA had conducted fractious debates about same-sex marriage in Kansas City. The biennial convention ended with no resolution and frustrated delegates at every point on the theological spectrum. The denomination continues to hemorrhage congregations, and the specter of further division loomed over the gathering in Harrisburg.
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