Haiti housing repairs, latrine projects build dignityBy Sheldon C. Good for Meetinghouse In a matter of seconds, the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti turned Elumene Charles' modest, concrete home to rubble. She lost everything ... Read more ...
Photo: Mariebelaine Sanon Buteau stands in front of a new latrine, the entryway covered by a curtain, built for her by MCC partner ACCESS with funding from MCC's earthquake response effort. Photo by Silas Crews.
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Cremation instead of cemeteries
By Anna Groff In the '80s and early '90s, cremation was somewhat of a dirty word for many Mennonites. Despite increasing funeral costs, which now run well over $6,000, most individuals felt attached to a traditional burial in a cemetery ... Read more ...Photo: Maribeth Troyer stands with the columbarium at Trinity Mennonite Church in Phoenix. She is the care minister. |
Occupy, capitalistic greed and homicidal security
By John StonerThe Occupy Wall Street Movement needs concrete actions which ordinary citizens can take. Nonviolence is a basic commitment of OWS and an essential part of the change we want to see. OWS needs to add a clear denunciation of homicidal security to its clear denunciation of capitalistic greed ... |
College Corner: Cows in Bethel's library
By Melanie Zuercher
Maybe it was just a rainy Fall Festival Saturday at Bethel College in North Newton, Kan.--or maybe it was alumni and current students' love of pranks that brought a crowd into Krehbiel Auditorium the afternoon of Oct. 8. They were there for "Thank you, Herman Bubbert--a celebration of pranks at Bethel College" ... Read more ...Photo: In 1977, right before Bethel College board meetings, President Harold Schultz arrived in the Ad Building one morning to find that his office had been filled with balloons. |
Tim blog: Tweaking Anabaptism: What Mennonites can learn from Steve JobsThis month Malcom Gladwell had an article in the New Yorker looking at the legacy of Steve Jobs. His central thesis is that Jobs' gift was not originality, but rather tweaking: the ability to take the inventions of others and refine and improve them dramatically ...
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