MWR : Articles : April 23, 2007

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Articles : April 23, 2007

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Editorial

Standing out in antiwar crowd

If anyone had predicted, in the flag-waving autumn of 2001, that within a few years it would be commonplace to oppose a U.S. war, few would have believed it. Yet today, to judge the Iraq war a mistake is to be counted with the majority.

Feature

Holy humor

WICHITA, Kan. — Serious Christians can laugh, too — even in church.

News

Compiler of Amish directories dies in Ohio

MILLERSBURG, Ohio — Ervin N. Gingerich, an Amish man who spent more than 50 years compiling directories of Amish communities in Ohio, died April 9 at age 91.
Workers see fires of revival flare in Peru

CUSCO, Peru — Fires of revival are flaming up among the Quechua people of the Peruvian Andes. Reporting on a monthlong training for leaders, held Jan. 15-Feb. 15, John Kreider, a worker with Eastern Mennonite Missions, said the training bore much fruit.
Wintry Kansas relief sale raises $388,000 for MCC

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Despite an unseasonable snowstorm, the 39th annual Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale, held April 13-14 at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, raised $388,000 to benefit Mennonite Central Committee.
EMU, Iranians explore mutual interests

HARRISONBURG, Va. — An Iranian human rights scholar would like to build a bridge between Eastern Mennonite University’s peace and justice studies program and a university in his home country.
Ministers get training while they work

ELKHART, Ind. — The church needs training options for people who are called to be pastors from within the congregation.
Pentecostal pacifist’s message

AZUSA, Calif. — Paul Alexander found a peace theology in a place he never thought to look, buried beneath the teachings of his denomination.
MDS house a long-distance project

AKRON, Pa. — A parking lot in San Jose, Calif., will be an unusual Mennonite Disaster Service project site this summer.
Young adults wrestle with visions for church

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Mennonite college students expressed a love-hate relationship with the church during a gathering at Eastern Mennonite University March 29-31.