Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Melanie Zuercher

Oct. 24, 2011 issue

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  A cow in the library

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Maybe it was just a rainy Fall Festival Saturday at Bethel College — or maybe it was alumni and current students’ love of pranks that brought a crowd into Krehbiel Auditorium the afternoon of Oct. 8.

  They were there for “Thank You, Herman Bubbert: A Celebration of Pranks at Bethel College.”

Sept. 19, 2011 issue

• Bethel grad, a 9/11 survivor, recalls how experience changed her

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — To mark the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Bethel College chapel planners turned to a personal connection.

Aug. 15, 2011 issue

• Bethel mourns student’s death

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Bethel College’s Krehbiel Auditorium is the venue for convocation, instrumental concerts, opera, lectures and theater — seldom a eulogy service.

Aug. 1, 2011 issue

• New health-care group created

  LAURELVILLE, Pa. — When Kristen Metzler-Wilson of Nelsonville, Ohio, arrived at the annual convention of Mennonite Medical Association and Mennonite Nurses Association, her name tag designation, “guest,” reflected how she felt — like a stranger.

April 18, 2011 issue

• Concern for Haiti builds web of relationships

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — A web of relationships, with Bethel College as a common thread, came together over the past year to help the people of Haiti and expose Bethel students to needs there.

March 21, 2011 issue

• Students, pastors reflect on Mideast

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — The experience of participating in the Jerusalem Seminar sponsored by Bethel and Tabor colleges caused Tom Harder, a Wichita pastor, to lose his religion.

March 7, 2011 issue

• Students invited to join a quiet, subversive revolution

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove invited the Bethel College community to join him in a quiet, subversive revolution, which he said might get you in trouble.

Jan. 3, 2011 issue

• Stories written in stone

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — A North Newton man is looking for threshing stones.

Dec. 20, 2010 issue

• Hope in heartbreaking loss

  On my desk is Forever Family by Laurie Oswald Robinson, published by Tales of the Times (talesofthetimes .com), 2010, 138 pages, $12.95.

Nov. 15, 2010 issue

• Global Anabaptism’s paradox

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — John D. Roth wondered what it meant for Bethel College to have a logo that says there is no foundation other than Jesus Christ.

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