MHS Alliance may become fifth MC USA agency
MHS Alliance/Mennonite Church USA
Mennonite Health Services Alliance and its direct forbearers have been a part of the Mennonite family for a long time. During the Mennonite Church USA convention in Phoenix, Ariz., July 1-6, delegates will be asked to strengthen this connection by endorsing MHS Alliance as a full agency of the church. With delegate approval, MHS Alliance will become the church's fifth program agency ... Read more ...
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Why is Downton Abbey so popular?
By Gordon Houser
 Why are so many U.S. viewers, including many Mennonites, so enamored with Downton Abbey, which ended its third season on PBS on Feb. 17? This British period drama television series, created by Julian Fellowes, is set in a fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey and depicts the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era ... Read more ...
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College Corner: Seminary student to lead trip to Egypt
From Eastern Mennonite Seminary
Ever since 2011, Egypt has featured prominently in U.S. news. But what do U.S. citizens, especially U.S. Christians really know about the country? Matthew Bucher and Greta Shenk are teaming up with Virginia Mennonite Missions to help Christians learn more about the country through a two-week "Partners in Mission" trip ... Read more ...
Photo: Matthew Bucher (left) with Father Angelos, an Egyptian Orthodox priest serving in Il-Qosseya. Trip participants will meet Father Angelos along with other Christians in Egypt. Photo provided.
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Tim's blog: Revisiting Anabaptist Camp Followers
The other day I had a good conversation with Mark Van Steenwyk, a writer and activist who lives in the Mennonite Worker community in Minneapolis, Minn. The conversation brought me back to concept of Anabaptist camp followers (ACFs) that I first dealt with in December 2009, in Miller's Misnomer*, a response to a piece by former Mennonite publish Levi Miller that took a jaded look at "peacenjustice" as a fading marketing ploy and coined the phrase "Anabaptist camp followers." In the last paragraph of my article, I offered a challenge to Mennonites to welcome this generation's ACFs ...
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