MWR : Articles : July 4, 2005

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Articles : July 4, 2005

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Editorial

Three voices for prophetic politics

The Christian right’s ascent to political power has placed the relationship of faith and politics at the center of public awareness.

News

Statement put to use welcoming ‘strangers’

Nina Lanctot came to Florence Church of the Brethren-Mennonite Church in Michigan expecting to find a low-key pastorate in a small community. Instead, she’s felt what it means to welcome strangers as fellow members of God’s family.
Indonesians build largest Anabaptist church

SEMARANG, Indonesia — Indonesian Mennonites have almost finished building the world’s largest Anabaptist church.
Goshen class studies civil-rights movement on South’s storied soil

GOSHEN, Ind. — In Memphis, Tenn., in front of the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, Molly Moyer had an experience she couldn’t have had by reading a textbook or watching a documentary.
Diverse group finds unity in the quest for peace

AKRON, Pa. — Mennonite Central Committee sponsored 29 peacemakers from around the world at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute May 9-June 21 at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.
Art’s oddity a cultural critique

Weird. Disturbing. Bizarre.
Aid partnership for Iraq ends two years of work

AKRON, Pa. — All Our Children, a partnership of eight aid organizations that included Mennonite Central Committee, contributed more than $2.2 million from 2003-05 to help meet the health needs of Iraqi children.
Back home from exile

NIEDERGÖERSDORF, Germany — Three heads bowed as Pastor Jake Unrau poured baptismal water over salt-and-pepper hair. After living most of their lives without a church nearby, these Siberian exiles were finally home in the Mennonite church.
Indonesians host ‘Holy Spirit in Mission’ conference

SEMARANG, Indonesia — Mennonite leaders from 16 nations celebrated the Holy Spirit’s power, traveled across Indonesia in ministry teams and attended to the business of an international missions group May 12-21.

Perspective

Four decades of making a campus look good

In the fall of 1963, my parents and I rolled up Parkwood Drive, and I gazed upon the campus of Eastern Mennonite College, never having visited the place before enrolling as a naive freshman.