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Mennonites apologize for allowing sexual abuse to go unpunished

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(RNS) From seminars to a service of lament to a statement confessing its failure to offer healing for survivors, sexual abuse was a prominent topic at the Mennonite Church USA’s biennial convention, which concluded Sunday (July 5).

Not prominently mentioned, but on many people’s minds, was the complicity of Mennonite leaders in the rampant sexual violations by the late theologian John Howard Yoder.