Aging KCK Congregation Bequeaths Building to Serve Youth

The Argentine Mennonite Church has focused for decades on serving the needs of youth. By giving its building to the Youthfront agency, that mission is continuing. (Bill Tammeus | Flatland)

Across much of the nation in recent decades, shrinking churches have confronted the painful question of whether they can afford to maintain a building for worship and other activities. Time and again the answer has been no. Sometimes that means finding other places in which to continue offering worship. But often it means either abandoning…

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Clergy Sex Abuse Survivor Reflects on His Reform Work

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

A 2002 series of Boston Globe articles turned a scandal about Catholic priests who sexually abuse children (and bishops who protect those priests) into a national story. The Globe, however, wasn’t the first newspaper to expose this reprehensible crime. Credit for that goes to the independent, Kansas City-based National Catholic Reporter. NCR was writing about…

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