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Changing Times, Changing Businesses: Insurance and the Mennonite Church

May 14, 2013 – 10:39 am

A century or more ago, “insurance” was something of a bad word for Mennonites. Buying an insurance policy implied value on worldly treasure and represented departure from the traditional practice of “mutual aid,” by which the church used its pooled resources to rebuild and restore losses suffered by individual members through accident or other misfortune. ...More