Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Nov. 6, 2006

Editorial

• Faith in shades of red and blue

  The faith-and-politics story this election season is that the Democrats have got religion. Speaking openly about religious and moral values, candidates and activists are casting off their party’s yoke of indifference or even hostility to faith.

Feature

• Former ‘shebeen queen’ now serves Jesus, not beer

  PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa — The “shebeen queen” stood over the card-playing regulars as immovable as the surrounding hills. She ordered them to get up and get out.

• Contrasting message sometimes subtle

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — On Wednesday and Saturday nights, Christians in and around Columbus gather at Agora Chris­tian Fellowship with groups of inner-city children. Many of the youths there spend most of their nights running with gangs on the Columbus streets.

• Peace churches teach as military surrounds

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Like the soldiers and soldiers-in-training concentrated on the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Merv Birky is vigilant against threats to the principles he believes in and the people he is responsible for.

News

• Reedley, Calif., church marks centennial year

  REEDLEY, Calif. — First Mennonite Church has spent the past year telling the many stories of its first 100 years, as part of a celebration that will culminate Nov. 17-19 with a weekend gathering of food and festivities.

• Goshen church links with Korean church planters

  GOSHEN, Ind. — Yellow Creek Mennonite Church, along with other congregations, is forming a church-planting partnership in South Korea.

• Food stamps a hard sell to Amish

  CLARIDON TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Tim Taylor’s job calls for finding ways to distribute food stamps to the Amish in Geauga County. He might as well be trying to sell them cars.

• Bethel graduate helps create guide to Kansas murals

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — For Lora Jost, art shouldn’t be separated from community.

• MDS-MCC fund for Amish families closes

  LANCASTER, Pa. — One of the funds for the victims of an Oct. 2 Amish school shooting rampage that ended with six people dead has closed with more than $800,000 in donations.

• Churches face AIDS in Thailand, Philippines

  DET UDOM, Thailand — Beth Good loves nothing better than challenging church leaders around the world to face the reality of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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