Fathers build furniture for staff in new Elkhart building  

By Anna Groff

When Lloyd Brugger's wife, Edna, brought the telephone to him in his shop on Oct. 26, his wood planer whirred in the background. Brugger, of Lowville, N.Y., was already on to on his next furniture project for Bruggerwald Creations ...

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Lloyd Brugger with the cherry bookcases he made in Lowville, N.Y., before he shipped them to Elkhart, Ind., for the new Mennonite Church USA offices. Photo by Edna Brugger.

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A call to the center: affirm and support celibacy 

By Doris Diener
 
Jesus calls the church to discipleship and kingdom living.The kingdom is an organism of people who face each day with a belief in an interactive God who desires our loving, sacrificial obedience and an interdependent relationship with other kingdom members. It is a pulsating, growing creation which radiates life into an environment of self, superiority, independence and destruction. When this organism forgets its dependence on God or its interdependence on its members, it tends to cling more to either God's gift of justice or to God's gift of freedom ...

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Editor's note: This article will not be published in The Mennonite.

College Corner: Sun showers for Goshen's Rec-Fitness Center

By Alysha Landis     

 

People taking showers in Goshen (Ind.) College's Roman Gingerich Rec-Fitness Center will soon have the sun-and the Goshen College Physics Department-to thank for their warm water. Members of the Sun Shower Collective ...

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Tim's blog: Anabaptists, Mennonites and Occupy Wall Street

It's been a month since I wrote a piece on Young Anabaptist Radicals about my experience of visiting Occupy Chicago. It was three days after they had started camping in front of the Federal Reserve of Chicago and 10 days after Occupy Wall Street kicked off in New York. At the time, I wrote with a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism ... 

 

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