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Aug. 23 issue
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Historians fill in a blank at Bethel
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — When it comes to religious history, the standard college textbook has a blank, one a recent conference at Bethel College was planned to help begin to fill in.
After more than 50 years of study of the Anabaptists, such a text nowadays will cover the beginnings of the Anabaptist movement in 16th-century Europe, the Kingdom of Münster and the Peasants’ War, said Mark Jantzen, Bethel associate professor of history. “But after 1550, [the Anabaptists] disappear.”
July 12 issue
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Reappraisal of Asia sojourn
On my desk is Pilgrims on the Silk Road: A Christian-Muslim Encounter in Khiva by Walter R. Ratliff, published by Wipf and Stock, 2010, 293 pages, $34.
June 7 issue
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Leverage chances to learn, Bethel grads told
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Aziza Hasan told graduates how to “leverage learning opportunities” at Bethel College’s 117th commencement May 23 at Thresher Stadium.
April 19 issue
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Pure play: Bethel athletes build teams up by serving
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Back in February, Bethel College campus pastor Dale Schrag encouraged students to participate in a meal-packaging event for earthquake-ravaged Haiti by invoking his late father.
Feb. 22 issue
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Bethel packs 220,000 meals for Haiti
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — It began at Bethel College with a student e-mail message sent in mid-January.
Feb. 1 issue
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Message still rings true, King friend says at Bethel
NORTH NEWTON, KAN. — In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the stage in Memorial Hall at Bethel College and told his listeners they needed to be “maladjusted.”
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Democracy needs ‘loving community’
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Although Vincent Harding had been invited to Bethel College to give the keynote address at a program honoring Martin Luther King Jr., his main purpose for being on campus Jan. 16-18, he said, was not to speak but to listen.
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Bethel’s sixth president dies at 101
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Bethel College has lost a man who bridged most of the college’s history.
Jan. 11 issue
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Bethel recovers lost King recording
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — On April 4, 1967 — exactly one year before he was assassinated — Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at the Riverside Church in New York City.
Dec. 14, 2009 issue
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Spirit moves at Bethel’s house
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — The new home for Bethel College campus ministries, Agape Center in the Richert House, has already demonstrated that God’s spirit moves and acts in myriad ways.
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