Where can I go to read about the 25 years of freefall? I suppose I know that one of the schools (Goshen?) was shut down for a year, but that's about it.Hats Off wrote:I have found the story of "Change" in Anabaptist churches very interesting but also discouraging. In the late 1800s we experienced a split in the Swiss Mennonite churches of eastern USA and Canada. The plain group reined in their standards and practices to recover ground they had lost while trying to satisfy the more liberal groups. The liberal groups, freed from the plain restraints, went all out until after twenty five years of free fall, they became concerned by the modernist spirit of the time. Fundamentalism seemed a good way of stopping the trend, but eventually, to some, it looked, felt, and acted too much like their Old Order cousins.
(Conservative Mennonites who've absorbed those 25 years may not be the best place to go...)