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Unconscious racism

I haven’t read much recently in MWR about the anti-racism program started by Mennonite Church USA some time ago.

‘Demons’ of abuse

Thank you for the article about Marilyn Wolgemuth and the abuse that devastated her family. To the three “demons” mentioned — silence, secrecy and denial — could be added shame. Many women are trapped in the box of shame, and it colors everything in their lives.
Lost pastors

Thank you, Ardie Goering, for your caring, informative column, “Former Pastors Who Are Gay.”
Not a ‘Mennist’

Jan Gleysteen’s account of “New Amsterdam and the Mennonites” was an interesting read. But his claim that Jonas Bronck, who gave his name to the Bronx, was a Mennonite is open to serious question.
Value of athletics

The June 15 “Postseason Match of Sister Schools” is an outcome of an unfolding history in developing interscholastic athletics for Christopher Dock High School and for Lancaster Mennonite High School.

MCC’s structure

I feel elated about — and, indeed, vindicated by — your report of Mennonite Central Committee’s vision for its revised structure. More than 10 years ago while vice chair of MCC U.S. I proposed that MCC U.S. and MCC Canada become the parent organizations of MCC, with the MCC executive committee their joint committee for the oversight and instrumentation of international programs.
Meadows’ legacy

Thank you so much for Melanie Zuercher’s article on the pipe organ that was given to Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, Kan., after the Meadows (Ill.) Mennonite congregation closed.
Pro-choice belief

I am pro-choice. In that Mennonite Church USA does not have an “official” policy on abortion law, and we’ve tended to tiptoe around the morality issue, I suspect there are folks who believe, as do I, that abortion is a decision that should be made by a woman, her doctor and her God.
Proposal for sexuality and church

Although given the opportunity to do so, I did not sign the “Open Letter to Mennonite Church USA,” which called the church to a stance of radical hospitality toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (April 6).
Shocking theology

I am shocked that Mennonite Central Committee would send J. Denny Weaver to Congo to present his theology — a theory with many holes in it, sometimes called “nonviolent atonement.”