Millionaire Mennonites balance wealth and belief
Wealthy Mennonites like Willis Muller of Wayne Dalton Corp balance profits with faith. The Mount Hope Ohio company employs many Mennonites and operates amid debates over wealth. Experts note Mennonites increasingly enter business while aiming to serve community and faith, with groups MEDA and MMA guiding ethical practices and philanthropy.
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Mennonite Economic Development Associates
John Longhurst
Mennonites
MEDA
Longhurst
Presbyterian sex education to shift toward abstinence emphasis
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) general assembly voted to revise its sex education curriculum to lean more toward abstinence while still offering contraceptives. Critics warn abstinence-only teaching may be impractical amid teen sexual exposure, but proponents argue it preserves biblical integrity. The modified curriculum will be submitted to a committee for approval within two years, affecting about 3 million members.
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Fort Worth
Texas
The
Presbyterian Church
Commissioners of the Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
General Assembly
Us.a
Church Hands Out Trigger Locks At Mall Action
Charles City Iowa AP St John Evangelical Lutheran Church offers gun trigger locks to prevent firing and educate on safety. pastor Mark Anderson says aim is protecting children as teenagers from the church distribute locks at a mall demonstrating installation. Havana Plaza service Castro attends as Protestant leaders urge forgiveness of US embargo in Cuba. Joan Brown Campbell says faith forgives embargoes. service part of Cuban Evangelical Celebration in Plaza of the Revolution. American Baptists expel four California churches for welcoming and affirming homosexuals. Lakeshore Avenue Oakland First Baptist Berkeley New Community of Faith San Jose San Leandro Community Church dismissed from regions. appeal denied by General Board.
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Charles City
Iowa
St. John Evangelical Lutheran
Havana
Broad Plaza
United States
Joan Brown Campbell
American Baptists
Des Moines
California
American Baptist Churches USA
General Board
Lakeshore Avenue
Reformed Church keeps ties with United Church of Christ
In Sioux Falls delegates of the Reformed Church in America rejected moves to sever ties with the United Church of Christ over UCC's stance on homosexuality. A second bill to probe UCC beliefs in Jesus Christ's divinity failed as well. The four denominations had formed a close fellowship involving about 10.5 million members after talks aimed at dialogue on sexuality.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
Reformed Church In America
United Church of Christ
UCC
Jesus
Reformed Church
Muslims gain cemetery conforming to customs in Waterloo
In Waterloo Iowa the Muslim community now has a four acre cemetery conforming to Islamic burial practices. The group, including Bosnians who arrived after 1996, had lacked a cemetery until the Board of Adjustment zoning approval near two existing cemeteries. Burials face Mecca, use no coffins or concrete vaults, and feature small headstones.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Board of Adjustment
Mecca
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Holland
Jacob Amman
James Herr
Pennsylvania
Herr Foods Inc
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Daryl Thomas
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Palliser Furniture
Winnipeg
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San Joaquin
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