This article first appeared in Welcome to Dialogue Series (A Search for Inclusiveness), booklet # 3 titled “Discerning Church Membership.” April 2001, 9-24. “Christ says, Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. . . . Who are you that you should sit in judgment with God?”—Menno Simons “There are three arenas for […]
(Initially requested to be written for a possible interfaith resource in Europe which never materialized. Instead of full footnotes, page numbers of sources in the bibliography appear in parentheses.) Through the centuries many Mennonites have presumed a traditional, evangelical stance toward other religions, promoting an exclusivist view that Jesus alone is the prime channel to […]