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by mike
Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
Replies: 22
Views: 554

Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events

I'm impressed. I think it is a good thing in a number of different ways, and I'd like to see similar efforts in other networks of churches.
by mike
Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:05 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
Replies: 22
Views: 554

Re: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events

I think that is correct. I heard that they decided they didn't want to do the normal thing of a Mennonite conference becoming a humongous, unwieldy organization, that places its own dealerships in every Anabaptist community. I understood they are going to divide regionally. Hats off to them! That i...
by mike
Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events
Replies: 22
Views: 554

Pilgrim Mennonite Conference current events

I heard the other day that Pilgrim Mennonite Conference may soon be disintegrating into several different groups and that their next annual conference will be their last one. Does anyone know whether this is in fact the case?
by mike
Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
Replies: 774
Views: 213019

Re: Sattler College Turmoil

You're seemingly so used to shoving people around that you feel entitled to it. So when brothereicher didn't bow to your rigged ground rules (rules you couldn't follow yourself—I just checked), you apparently concluded that gives you license to lie about him. I only know you on the Internet. But if...
by mike
Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
Replies: 774
Views: 213019

Re: Sattler College Turmoil

Well, that's all well and good, but I've only met him online, and I have only seen his online rhetoric and debate tactics, and the last several pages have been clearly engaged in in bad faith, as I have documented. We all get carried away, and one interaction isn't a whole life, and JM may be the n...
by mike
Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
Replies: 774
Views: 213019

Re: Sattler College Turmoil

You're seemingly so used to shoving people around that you feel entitled to it. So when brothereicher didn't bow to your rigged ground rules (rules you couldn't follow yourself—I just checked), you apparently concluded that gives you license to lie about him. I only know you on the Internet. But if...
by mike
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit
Replies: 30
Views: 550

Re: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit

The feds will try to assert that disparate impact means that there must be discrimination or racial animus if the results adversely impacts a protected population. After all, all white people are racist, by definition. As I said, I would have been fired had I not retired, because I would have stood...
by mike
Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:11 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit
Replies: 30
Views: 550

Re: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit

The thing to remember about companies such as Sheetz is that they do all of their job applications online through web forms. All similar big retail companies do the same. No human is actually reading or doing the first screen of applications. Apparently Sheetz set up a data screen that automaticall...
by mike
Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit
Replies: 30
Views: 550

Re: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit

This is of particular interest because we do background checks for prospective employees at my business. We don't automatically disqualify them for failing them, but I wonder why such a policy would subject one to a discrimination suit just because it disproportionately affects people of color. Why ...
by mike
Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:42 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit
Replies: 30
Views: 550

Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit

A sizeable chain of convenience stores headquartered in my area has been hit with a federal discrimination suit . I am trying to make sense of this. A convenience store chain where President Joe Biden stopped for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania has been hit with a lawsuit by feder...