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Anna Groff named interim editor
 

 
By Annette Brill Bergstresser of Mennonite Church USA

The board of The Mennonite, Inc., has appointed Anna Groff of Tucson, Ariz., as interim editor for The Mennonite--the denominational periodical of Mennonite Church USA--and its related web and social media channels ...

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Goods close books division      


By Tim Mekeel. Courtesy Intelligencer Journal/New Era,
Lancas
ter, Pa.  

Good Enterprises Ltd., which ran book publishing, quilt retailing and other ventures, has closed and filed for bankruptcy liquidation. The Pennsylvania-based business, which laid off all of its 35 employees, is believed to have shut its doors on Friday ... 

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Photo: Merle and Phyllis Good. From GoodBooks.com.


 
Mandela remembered for human rights and peace      


From Mennonite Mission Network

Together with the global church, Mennonite Mission Network mourns the death of Nelson Mandela and remembers the important legacy he left us. His belief in human dignity and equal rights inspires us all to offer kindness and grace even to our enemies ...
 
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Photo: Stanley Green, executive director of Mission Network, and his wife, Ursula, in front of the South African Consulate in Los Angeles, Calif. at the celebration of Nelson Mandela's release from prison. Photo provided.

 

College Corner:  Student photographer captures Obama family handing out Thanksgiving packages   

 

By Paul Souder

When Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va., sophomore Londen Wheeler learned President Obama would drop by his workplace for a thank-you visit, he knew Nov. 27 would not be a typical day at the office ...

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Photo: Londen Wheeler with his trusty Canon camera. Photo by Taylor Harrison.

 

Tim's blog: 250th anniversary of the Conestoga massacre, Part 1

  
Early on the morning of Dec. 14, 1763, a group of warriors on horses rode into the small village of Conestoga, Pa. It was snowing. Smoke rose from the chimneys of a few small huts clustered together. Though they knew the impoverished pacifists sleeping inside would not fight back, they wasted no time ... 

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"Hans Herr House" by Wilson V. Chambers, featuring Conestoga Indians visiting Hans Herr and his family.



     


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