Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Feb. 15, 2010

Congregations

• Angel’s gifts

  Lois Janzen Preheim used Zechariah’s song from Luke 1 for her message theme on Dec. 6. Though the angel offered a gift of hope, Zechariah rejected it. His second gift was silence. In his song he affirms that God is here to deliver, to guide and to give us forgivenesss.
  

• New birth, new hope

  December provided opportunity to rethink the themes of new birth, new norms and new hope.

Editorial

• Purposeful agents of change

  Change is constant but hard to control. Technological progress, economic cycles and cultural trends will sweep us along unless we take charge of our own choices.
  

Feature

• Churches confront economic issues

  WASHINGTON — At West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship in October, worshipers considered how personal choices such as shopping, career paths, debt and education affect God’s global community.

• Blogs add spice to cooks’ adventures

  Wendy Hammond is doing it to discover simple ways of preparing local, healthful foods.

• Chinese church grows tenfold after quake

  CHENGDU, China — When an earthquake largely destroyed the church in Mianzhu in May 2008, church members were among the first to help their neighbors.

• EMU professor learns Lithuania’s iconic art

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Last year, Jerry Holsopple spent his days teaching in the visual and communication arts department at Eastern Mennonite University.

Letters

• National anthem

  Thank you for your editorial, “The National Anthem and Christ’s Lordship.”

• This land is our land

  Thank you for the information regarding Goshen College and the national anthem.

• Shopping Sabbath?

  I was grieved to read about the opening of grocery stores on Sundays in one of the Mennonite and Christian heartlands.

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