Are family issues only women's issues?
By Gordon Houser
One of the conversations going on in our society is a debate about work-life balance: how to balance one's work life with the responsibilities of parenting. However, the conversation is happening almost exclusively among women. Men remain largely excluded from the debate ... Read more ... |
Ohio youth participate in first-ever leadership program
By Anna GroffTen youth and their mentors gathered Aug. 16-17 at Camp Luz in Orrville, Ohio, for the first-ever Youth Leadership Project, a partnership between Ohio Conference, Central Christian School and Camp Luz. This project is based off the Values-Based Leadership Program, a leadership training for adults rooted in an Anabaptist perspective that occurs annually in a two-session format at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center ... 
Read more ...Participants in the Youth Leadership Project practiced team and trust building exercises, including the game, "helium," in which the hola hoop must be lowered to the ground with everyone's finger touching the hoop. Photo provided.
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College Corner: Seminary alum ministers to soldiers in Afghanistan
From Eastern Mennonite Seminary
John Jacobs Jr., the only chaplain in his U.S. Army battalion, stood on a blood-soaked plywood board as he conducted a worship service for soldiers at a tiny combat outpost in the mountains of Afghanistan. Many wounded soldiers had been brought to this spot for transport back to a base hospital ... Read more ...  Photo: John Jacobs Jr., who earned an MDiv from Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Va., in 2004, is a military chaplain. Here he is conducting a service at Norfolk Naval Base. Photo courtesy of John Jacobs.
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Tim's blog: The Politics of John Howard Yoder: 41 years of tiptoeing around power
The last two months have seen a growing number of articles on John Howard Yoder's sexual harassment and abuse of women (for a list of articles, see the Women in Leadership Project's timeline and annotated bibliography) led by Barbra Graber's July 17 article on Our Stories Untold. Many of these pieces have been in conversation with Dr. Ruth Krall's important book, The Elephants in God's Living Room, Volume Three: The Mennonite Church and John Howard Yoder, Collected Essays, which I draw on heavily in this article. I especially recommend her sixth chapter, "John Howard Yoder, D. Theol. 1927-1997: Believer's Church Theologian and Ordained Mennonite Clergyman," which looks in detail at Yoder as a case study ...
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