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Articles : Nov. 12, 2007

The force that moves history

Greg Boyd came to Hesston (Kan.) College to talk about faith and politics. Then he admitted he had something even more important to say.

Theologian: Marginal can be prophetic

ELKHART, Ind. — Mennonites and Pentecostals have perspectives in common, Cheryl Bridges Johns told students and faculty of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary on her recent visit as Theological Center Guest.
Language, landscape central to Canadian novelist

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Perhaps a key achievement of Rudy Wiebe’s new memoir is his evocation of the “polyglot world of languages” the award-winning Canadian novelist grew up in and the role these languages played in his formation as a writer.
AIDS ministry: from Africa to India

SALUNGA, Pa. — The church’s mandate to respond to HIV/AIDS is not optional. This has been Beth Good’s conviction for many years, even before she began her work with Eastern Mennonite Missions as the catalyst for a global response to HIV/AIDS.
Students carry Bibles everywhere

GOSHEN, Ind. — To carry a Bible around school all the time is unusual. To do so in public, even more so.
See Jesus in others, EMU students told

HARRISONBURG, Va. — At age 72, Tony Campolo remains passionate about two things — that people experience a vital relationship with Jesus Christ and that they combine evangelistic zeal with concern for social justice.
AMBS prays for neighbors

ELKHART, Ind. — Most students at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary don’t consider the city of Elkhart home, but neither would they consider themselves exiles while they study there.

Ohio farmers receive honor from MMA

WAUSEON, Ohio — The organizers of an agriculture project to fund sustainable farming in Kenya recently won an award from Mennonite Mutual Aid.
Peace seen as point of unity with Catholics

ROME — The pope affirmed Catholic-Mennonite dialogue and peacemaking’s place at the heart of the gospel during an audience with a Mennonite delegation Oct. 19.
Two-state Middle East plan urged

WASHINGTON — A Mennonite professor and minister who heads Evangelicals for Social Action was part of a group that met Oct. 26 with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on peace efforts in Israel and Palestine.