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Honduran Mennonite pastor found murdered
By Ron Rempel of Mennonite World Conference
On Jan. 22, Rafael Erasmo Arevalo, a Mennonite pastor in Honduras, was attacked and killed after leading an evening worship service. Arevalo, from Santa Rosa de Copán, drove about 20 kilometres north to Veracruz, where he had led worship services for the past 10 years.
According to a report in a Honduran newspaper, La Prensa, Arevalo parked his car at the home of a Veracruz city councilor and then walked to the church. When he returned to his car after the worship service, he was attacked by "unknown persons" ...
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Libraries get a second windBy Anna Groff
In the era of tablets, online books and Wikipedia, where does this leave church libraries? Dusty? Forgotten? Neglected? Several Mennonite churches have overcome challenges facing traditional libraries by finding inventive ways to offer relevant library services to their church members and beyond ...
 Read more ... Shirley Kauffman (left) helps patrons in the Clinton Frame Mennonite Church library in Goshen, Ind. Photo provided.
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Choice Books sales increase 5.15 percent in 2011
From Choice Books Choice Books, an inter-Anabaptist book evangelism ministry, purchased and sold 5,375,677 books in 2011, a 5.15 percent increase over 2010. Choice Books serviced more than 11,000 permanent displays nationwide at the end of the year in supermarkets, mass merchandise stores, airports, drug stores, travel centers, gift shops, army and air force bases and a variety of other retailers ...
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College Corner: Accumulation seduces ChristiansBy Laura Amstutz of Eastern Mennonite SeminaryBeware of seduction by accumulation. That was one of the money issues explored by Walter Brueggemann, a world-renowned Old Testament scholar, in talks to as many as 700 people gathered at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va., Jan. 16-18 ... Read more ... Walter Brueggemann inspires School for Leadership Training participants to move beyond the drive to accumulate toward accepting God's gracious abundance. Cody Troyer. |
Tim's blog: The beatitudes and becoming an ally
As we think about what it means to be an ally and look at the continuing legacy of white supremacist Christianity, the Beattitudes in Matthew and Luke have a lot to offer us ...
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