Every two years, Mennonite Church USA holds a biannual
convention to bring together Mennonites from all over the country. It is an
opportunity to reunite with old friends, to worship God, and to celebrate a
religious heritage that goes that goes all the way back to the Reformation in
Europe.
This convention also gives Mennonite Church USA’s delegate
body—composed of representatives from member conferences and affiliated organizations—a
chance to decide the direction that the broader denomination will take. And
where I was always more concerned with the other aspects of the convention, it
is the workings of the delegate body that I now find interesting.
And it is specifically the issue of inclusion of
homosexuality that I particularly direct most of my attention.
