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Young leaders launch new network: Anabaptist Missional Project 


By Anna Groff 

Matthew Krabill
Several seminary students, including Matthew Krabill and David Stutzman, longed for a network of young adult Mennonites passionate about the church. Krabill and Stutzman, two young adult Mennonites, study at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. ...

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Zenebe Abebe named MCC Great Lakes executive director 

Abebe

By Jennifer Steiner of MCC Great Lakes

Mennonite Central Committee Great Lakes board of directors has named Zenebe Abebe as the organization's executive director. He succeeds Stanley Kropf, who has served as interim executive director since August 2008 ...

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CMU seeks new president

From Canadian Mennonite University
 

 

Canadian Mennonite University is launching its presidential search for a successor to current President Gerald Gerbrandt, who completes his term on June 30, 2012. CMU's presidential search website goes live Feb. 18 to mark the launch of the search. Gerbrandt has served as a president at CMU since its inception in 2000. For the first three years CMU was led by a team of three presidents ...

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College Corner: EMU senior to display mannequins


By Jim Bishop of Eastern Mennonite University

EMU
An exhibit by Hannah C. Shelly entitled "Markets and Mannequins" will open 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, in the new Margaret Martin Gehman Art Gallery in the University Commons at Eastern Mennonite University Harrisonburg, Va. Shelly is a senior photography and digital media major from Bluffton, Ohio ...

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Hannah C. Shelly's exhibit, "Markets and Mannequins." Photo provided.

   

Kate's blog: Cooking and company Kate Good


One night years ago, my parents came home from an evening out and discovered our dog, Jorg, streaked with white flour. Curious, they followed Jorg to the kitchen where they found me, wearing red plaid pajamas and elbows deep in dough. Bored, I was teaching myself how to make bread ...

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Tim's blog: Patterns of this world: Institutions and bureaucracy among the Mennonites, PartTim Nafziger 1


"In the world, but not of it." This is a concept long embraced by Mennonites in style of dress and rejection of other "worldy" trappings. But in the last 50 years, the stance of mainstream Mennonites has changed dramatically. Embracing radio, television and lipstick, we've come to see our Christian distinctiveness through our dissenting view on war, our commitment to simple living and our Christian service ...
 

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