Pink Mennos and conventions
by Joel Miller, Cincinnati
How wonderful of The Mennonite to carry two powerful essays on the role that subversive women have played in shaping our faith story (“Wise Men and Subversive Women” and “Subversive Mothers in the Genealogy of Jesus,” May). These authors rightly praise the way the biblical tradition upholds the marginalized as central bearers of God’s good news—news that continues to haunt our hearts. How puzzling, then, that the closing editorial chose to single out a group of marginalized young people (Pink Mennos) as subverting the work of the church. In generations to come, might they be the very ones we praise and uphold as central bearers of God’s good news—news that continues to haunt our hearts?
Associated Issue: Mother mourning - May 2011
Associated Article: Wise men and subversive women
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