DownloadArticles : Sept. 8, 2008
Editorial
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Beyond race, in pew and politics
The Democratic party’s nomination of Sen. Barack Obama for president represents a landmark of progress for a nation scarred from birth by racial division and injustice.
News
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MDS ready for Hurricane Gustav cleanup
Hurricane Gustav damaged some homes of Mennonites on the Gulf Coast, Mennonite Disaster Service reported Sept. 3, but church contacts did not yet know the extent.
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Native Assembly seeks justice, shalom
CLINTON, Okla. — This is a pivotal moment in Native American history, according to Adrian Jacobs, speaker at the July 28-31 Native Assembly. Jacobs, a Canadian Six Nations pastor, called native people to take action in God’s salvation narrative.
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Ethnic groups build unity at gathering in Mexico
CUAUHTÉMOC, Mexico — Mennonites from different backgrounds and ethnicities gained appreciation for each other when representatives of five Mexican Mennonite conferences gathered Aug. 3-8.
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MEDA enters Europe, plans office in Germany
Waterloo, Ont. — Mennonite Economic Development Associates is taking its vision of reducing poverty through economic development into the European market for the first time with plans to open an office in Germany.
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Christian education leader dies
Elkhart, Ind. — Bertha Fast Harder, the first female faculty member at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and the first woman elected to a major Mennonite denominational board, died Aug. 23 in Goessel, Kan. She was 94.
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MCC sends 10,000 blankets to victims of war in Afghanistan
PLUM COULEE, Man. — Ten thousand heavy-weight comforters made by volunteers for Mennonite Central Committee are on their way to Afghanistan.
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Scholar attends ‘good neighbor’ gathering of Christians, Muslims
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Mennonite scholar David W. Shenk joined 150 Christian and Muslim scholars and leaders for “Common Word Conference: Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed” July 28-31 at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
Sunday School by Andres
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The good life
Early in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus has been drawing crowds as he heals people and proclaims the good news that God’s kingdom is at hand. One day, Jesus sees them, goes up a hillside and begins teaching what this kingdom is like — and what folks look like who live in it.
Spread the Word
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Making faith rise like bread
Peggy Landis, our missions commission chair, closed our two-hour goal-setting meeting last month in an unusual way. Recognizing the long-term service of three of our members, she gave them each a loaf of homemade bread.
Virginia Ham
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Hymn sing: peak experience
MINERAL COUNTY, W.Va. — The phone call from Uncle Phil Dayton, my mom’s youngest brother, came weeks before the event, a personal invitation, and I thought, yes, why not? We pass this way but once.
World Neighbors
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Lost in translation and fear
In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev’s statement, “We will bury you,” impressed upon Americans the threat that the Soviet Union represented. Later, Russian language experts noted that the phrase could also mean, “We will outlast you.”
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