Protesting in Madison and the reign of God
By J. Denny Weaver I am a "recovering nonresistant Mennonite." That recovery is not from the commitment to peace and nonviolence that I have learned from the Anabaptist tradition. What I am recovering from and atoning for is the passive version of "peace and nonresistance" that I learned from two-kingdom theology in my younger years ... Read more ...
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The Mennonite 2011 photo contest winners Category: Worship Submitted by Joel Lehman Subject: Glenn Lehman rehearses at the organ  Category: Work/play Submitted by Todd Widmer Subject: Claire Widmer spinning at the playground Category: Still life Subject: Glass of fruit Submitted by Wilford Yoder Category: Nature Subject: Reflecting twin fawns Submitted by Wilford Yoder Click to view all winning photos ... |
Online course strengthens worker who cares for infants in Nigeria
By Laura Lehman AmstutzWhen Crystal Gosnell saw an email from Eastern Mennonite Seminary advertising an online course called "Cross-cultural Discipleship," she knew she needed to take it. Gosnell cares for newborn infants and  runs the education program in an orphanage in Nigeria. She is also a seminary student ... Crystal Gosnell, Eastern Mennonite Seminary student, reads her assignment for her online cross-cultural discipleship course as she takes care of children in a Nigerian orphanage. Photo provided. Read more ...
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College Corner: Bluffton students answer call to serve
From Bluffton UniversityLeroy Barber, president of the urban initiative Mission Year, issued a challenge to Bluffton (Ohio) University students last October when he addressed them during Spiritual Life Week on campus. Over spring break, two dozen Bluffton students took him up on it ...  Andrea Allan (second from right) helps pull one of the 230 discarded tires that Bluffton students retrieved from a ravine in South Bend Park in Atlanta.Read more ...
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Tim's blog: In the garden after the rain in California
This evening is the last night of our 10 day stay with Elaine Enns and Ched Myers in Oak View, California. Contrary to stereotypes of California, most of the visit has been rainy, which has been wonderful for Ched and Elaine's incredible garden, full of native plants from their local bio-region, the California Chaparral as well as food plants ...
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