MWR : Articles : Celeste Kennel-Shank/Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Celeste Kennel-Shank/Mennonite Weekly Review

Giving thanks for the global church

As people in the United States prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we mark an encounter between immigrant and indigenous groups on this continent.
Paraguayan businessman tells of service as Cabinet official

LANDISVILLE, Pa. — When Nicanor Duarte Frutos, then president-elect of Paraguay, asked Ernst Bergen, a successful Mennonite entrepreneur, to join his Cabinet, Bergen was astounded.
Paraguayans put focus on beliefs that unite church

LANCASTER, Pa. — With about 100 cultures in their churches today, Mennonites need to clarify their shared faith principles, said Alfred Neufeld, chair of the coordinating council for the Mennonite World Conference assembly in Paraguay in July 2009.

Businessman shares story of captivity in Afghanistan

Al Geiser spent 56 days thinking and praying, with only a set of worry beads and his memory to aid him. Captive in Afghanistan, he spent much of that time lying blindfolded with his body partly on earth, partly on rocks, under the open sky.

Health care plan aids church body

Health care’s status as a major issue in the election this year may mean more people recognize the U.S. system is broken. Whichever candidate’s health care plan one supports, it is necessary to acknowledge some hard truths.
CLC delves into health care plan and more

GLORIETA, N.M. — After a 2006 car accident, Juanita Nuñez thought carefully about the costs before going to the hospital.

Businessman freed after 56 days kidnapped in Afghanistan

A Mennonite businessman from Kidron, Ohio, returned to the United States Oct. 20 after spending 56 days kidnapped in Afghanistan and is in good health, according to his family and pastor.

Musical gifts that serve all

CHICAGO — The club in a hip city neighborhood low-lit like its name — Subterranean — was a long way away from the farms, small towns and Mennonite churches of the band members’ childhoods.
As Amish population rises, a quest for new land

Amish groups have grown rapidly in the past 15 years and moved into new states, according to research by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College.
N.J. pastor loses credentials over sexuality issue

Franconia Conference of Mennonite Church USA took away the credentials of Pastor Michael Schaadt of Alpha (N.J.) Mennonite Church, effective Oct. 15, because Schaadt, who is gay, told the conference he could no longer commit to celibacy.