Joint boards meeting addresses 'martyr complex'By Anna Groff with Gordon Houser, Serena Townsend (intern for The Mennonite) Leaders at a joint board meeting on April 14 addressed the "martyr complex" many Mennonites carry, especially ethnic German and Swiss Mennonites, and the consequences of that mindset ... Read more ... |
Couple receives international attention for Twitter proposal Mike Duerksen of Winnipeg, Manitoba, live-tweeted his marriage proposal to his girlfriend Janelle Freed of Pennsylvania. Using the social media site Twitter to broadcast his proposal received much attention from online news sources and blogs. Freed and Duerkson met at Mennonite World Conference assembly in Paraguay in 2009 ... Click here to read the ABCnews story. |
Good news for The Mennonite
By The Mennonite staff
The board of directors for The Mennonite, Inc., met at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind., on April 13 and held a joint meeting with the Executive Board during one session. Both boards use a modified form of policy governance in their operating philosophy.
Everett Thomas, editor, asked for a joint task force to develop a policy that would guide the relationship between the two boards. Such a task force would also address succession planning for the editor role ...
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College Corner: Bethel students learn and serve on New Mexico spring break trip By Melanie Zuercher of Bethel College It's hard to beat a spring break that includes sun, fun and social work. A group of nine students from Bethel College, North Newton, Kan., along with two professors, spent the college's spring break week in Arizona and New Mexico, much of it within the Navajo Nation ... Read more ... Photo: A distance shot of the Bethel College group on a visit to Chaco Canyon, a Navajo sacred area and National Historical Park in New Mexico. Photo by Ami Regier. |
Tim blog: We're moving to California 
On May 23, Charletta and I will be leaving Chicago for a year's sojourn in California. As I sit down to share this with you, I realize that most of my writing on this blog is opinion or analytical. It's rare that I write about developments in my life. But this one is too big not to mention ...Read more ...
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