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Articles : Nov. 26, 2007

A new challenge in mental health care

The contradictory realities of caring for the mentally ill and putting them in jail have become tragically intertwined in America. A half century after Mennonites helped introduce sweeping changes in mental hospitals, a need for similar reform in mental health care now has come to light in the nation’s prisons and in other places where bureaucracy has been allowed to trump compassion in the care of the emotionally disturbed.

Technology meets tradition in Bolivia

WINNIPEG, Man. — With the help of pre-tuned, solar-powered radios, Dan Klaue’s original Low German songs for children are reaching thousands of young Bolivian Mennonites.

MCC helps build AIDS clinic in Uganda

KAMPALA, Uganda — More than 30 AIDS patients sang together to celebrate the Oct. 19 dedication of an AIDS clinic that Mennonite Central Committee helped build.
Day of prayer and petition for Iran, Iraq

Mennonite Church USA and the Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office are asking that Dec. 2 be set aside in churches as a day for prayers and petitions for peace in Iran and Iraq as the Advent season begins.
Professor sees loss of historic beliefs

WINNIPEG, Man. — For Goshen (Ind.) College history professor John D. Roth, Mennonite Church USA members dwell in a paradoxical moment.

Vessels of Jesus

Poor Mary, we want to say. She was too young to be burdened with carrying a child, too young even to be married. And yet she was pregnant. What did her parents say? How did her friends react? What did Nazareth think? Why her?

Politics: Good, bad, ugly

It may seem like it’s been a long road already, but the next U.S. presidential election is less than one heated year away. Three things are worth noting — the good, the bad and the ugly.