A century or more ago, 鈥渋nsurance鈥� 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 鈥渕utual aid,鈥� by which the church used its pooled resources to rebuild and restore losses suffered by individual members through accident or other misfortune.
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