MDS director shocked by tornado damage in Alabama

By Anna Groff

While Hurricane Katrina survivors had about three days of warning before the storms, Alabama tornado survivors had only three hours

 on April 27. Kevin King, executive director of Mennonite Disaster Service, said he was struck by the amount of people walking around dazed in the midst of their shattered homes ...   

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Destruction after the tornadoes in Pratt City, Ala. Photo by Steve Craven. For more photos from Alabama, go to www.themennonite.org homepage. 

    

Fuel for extremism is beyond Bin Laden, EMU prof says

By Bonnie Price Lofton

 

Pakistan-based graduates of Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va., say U.S. military policy in their country has fed extremism and that, sadly, such extremism may not subside with the death of Osama bin Laden ...

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Lisa Schirch (center) with Pakistani graduates of EMU's masters program in conflict transformation, Ali Gohar (left) and Jennifer Jag Jivan (right). Photo provided.   

Listen to song by high-schooler about Bin Laden's death 

Sadie Gustafson-Zook of Faith Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind., wrote this song, "Killing with Kill," in reflection of Osama bin Laden's death on May 2. She is a sophomore at Bethany Christian High School, Goshen. Gustafson-Zook describes the song as a "personal reflection on how I've noticed people responding to Osama bin Laden's death, and the justice dilemma it creates when a murderer is murdered."
 
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Susan Mark Landis ends her service as denominational minister for peace and justice

By Jessica Farmwald for Mennonite Church USA

After 16 years in leadership with the Mennonite Church/Mennonite Church USA, Susan Mark Landis of Orrville, Ohio, moved on from her position as denominational minister for peace and justice ...

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Susan Mark Landis on a trip to Washington, D.C., to witness against unjust immigration laws. Photo by Bethany Spicher Schonberg.

College Corner: AMBS appoints Egyptian Christian to teach Old Testament

Safwat Marzouk, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary originally from Cairo, Egypt, has been appointed as Professor of Old Testament at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., beginning in July ...

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Tim's blog: Anabaptist ghosts: Social advocacy and confrontation

In this month's editorial in The Mennonite, editor Everett Thomas quoted Mennonite Church USA executive director Ervin Stutzman as follows:

"The experience of Pink Mennos at Columbus in 2009," Stutzman said, "introduced a new level of engagement in controversial matters ...

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