Popular Hispanic program at risk
By Everett J. Thomas
A 25-year old program that has helped more than 1,000 people in it 42-credit-hour program faces financial problems so severe it may need to be scaled back significantly in January. The Hispanic Pastoral Leadership Education is sponsored by the Mennonite Education Agency but cannot continue without increased support, says MEA's executive director, Carlos Romero ... Read more ...
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Triking for Dakota land justice
By Tina Schrag and Linda Espenshade
As John Stoesz pedals his recumbent trike down County Road 22 in southern Minnesota, he faces two realities-the dedication of today's farmers to the land and the conspicuous absence of Dakota people on their ancestral land ...  Read more ... John Stoesz, former MCC Central States executive director, is advocating for Dakota land justice as he rides his recumbent trike 2,000 miles across southern Minnesota during September and October. Photo by Silas Crews.
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College Corner: U.S. Poet Laureate has maternal tie to Bluffton
From Bluffton College
A little-known chapter of Bluffton (Ohio) University history, outlined in a campus forum Oct. 1, will be illustrated in the flesh at another forum Oct. 15.
Fifty years after her mother, Gwendolyn Turnbough, finished her one year at then-Bluffton College, Natasha Trethewey, the current Poet Laureate of the United States, will speak "On Poetry and History" in the university's annual Keeney Peace Lecture ...
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