The World Mennonite Review reports another Mennonite denominational publication is ending.

Beacon, the monthly magazine of CMC, is going out of print at the end of the year.

CMC is the former Conservative Mennonite Conference, a 13,000 member group based in Irwin, Ohio.

Beacon will be replaced by a digital monthly edition with five articles published primarily by the CMC office staff with some oversight by the Publication and Literature Committee.

The committee cited financial struggles and the retirement of editor Conrad Showalter as reasons for the change.

The announcement expressed hope that a digital version of the Beacon will continue to be an asset to CMC and its member churches for many years to come.

Digital editions will consist of five articles: one on a theme chosen by the Publication and Literature Committee, one from the CMC mission agency Rose­dale International, one from Rosedale Bible College, one from CMC leadership and one from a CMC congregation.

Word of the Beacon’s end came just weeks after the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches announced the winter 2020 issue of its quarterly magazine, MB Herald, will be the last.