Book 2: The Losers, 8.5x5.5", 2004, artists book.


"Shunning, a practice designed to shame a member into repenting,
has been dropped by most Mennonite sects" -Donald B. Kraybill,
(Senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Groups at Elizabethtown College)



Mennonite Confession of Faith: Article 14: Discipline in the Church.
We believe that the practice of discipline in the church is a sign of God's offer of forgiveness and transforming grace to believers who are moving away from faithful discipleship or who have been overtaken by sin. Discipline is intended to liberate erring brothers and sisters from sin, to enable them to return to a right relationship with God, and to restore them to fellowship in the church. It also gives integrity to the church's witness and contributes to the credibility of the gospel message in the world.



"When Mennonites stop quibbling about belief, their religion will be dead."
-Abraham Nofziger (Mennonite hermit/author) © Bethel College