The Amish makeover of Christian fiction:
What's a Mennonite to do?
By Valerie Weaver-Zercher My grandfather left his Amish home in Holmes County, Ohio, to follow the wheat harvest and never went back. His was a typical journey up what has been called the "Anabaptist escalator": from the lower floors of the Old Order Amish to the more acculturated and more evangelical Mennonites ...
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Everence purchases Church Extension Services program
Everence
At their March 14, 2013, meeting, the Church Extension Services board of directors approved the sale of all Church Extension Services assets to Everence Association. The sale comes as part of an overarching plan to fully integrate Church Extension Services into Everence, the stewardship agency of Mennonite Church USA.
"The financial mission and ministry of Everence is the right fit for the denomination's missional loan program," said Marty Lehman, Mennonite Church USA's Associate Executive Director for Churchwide Operations ...
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College Corner: Anabaptist Bestiary Project launches Indiegogo fundraiser
Bluffton University
Anabaptist Bestiary Project, an alternative music ensemble based at Bluffton (Ohio) University is using the crowdfunding website Indiegogo to raise funds to aid in the production of its second CD of original music ...
Photo: Anabaptist Bestiary Project performs at Bluffton (Ohio) Unviersity. From left: Brent Schroeder, Kevin White, Zeke Tracy, Blake Zickafoose, Trevor Bechtel, Joel Wildermuth and Chris Jennings. Photo provided.
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Tim's blog: Anabaptist Camp Followers III: A case study
In my role as administrator for the Young Anabaptist Radicals I sometimes get emails from people with general questions about Anabaptism. Two weeks ago, I got an email from a professor at a college in Texas who shared the following thoughts with me ...
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