Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Scott Sundberg

July 4, 2011 issue

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  Photo by Scott Sundberg

  Preaching Peace organization pushes discussion on God and violence

  BALTIMORE — Brian McLaren likes to quote Austrian priest, philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich, who said, “If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.”
  

  Part of the alternative story McLaren has been suggesting is this: Our God is not violent.

March 7, 2011 issue

• ‘Rebuilding families’ is MDS goal after flood in Tennessee

  LYLES, Tenn. — Andy Plank told Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers how flooding last May took out everything in his home.

Feb. 14, 2011 issue

• Five churches build for five families

  NEW IBERIA, La. — Thanks to five Hartville, Ohio, congregations, five families here can come home.

Oct. 25, 2010 issue

• Women’s program gives quilted wall hangings to MDS

  LITITZ, Pa. — Sister-Link, a program of Mennonite Women USA, recently gave four quilted wall hangings for Mennonite Disaster Service to display in its new binational headquarters.

May 24, 2010 issue

• Threatening a way of life

  GRAND BAYOU, La. — Paul Sylve is a fisherman, a sometime oil worker and occasional preacher at Port Sulphur Baptist Church.

May 10, 2010 issue

• Agencies, Texas churches brace for hurricanes

  SAN ANTONIO — Mennonite congregations in Texas want to be better prepared for the next major hurricane than they’ve been in the past.

April 5, 2010 issue

• Mississippi transition not the usual MDS farewell

  PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. — After working almost 25,000 volunteer days since Hurricane Katrina, Mennonite Disaster Service is transitioning but not saying goodbye.

Jan. 11, 2010 issue

• MDS builds for those once forgotten

  FRANKLIN, La. — Of the four hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast in the past four years — Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike — most people only remember Katrina and Rita.

Aug. 10, 2009 issue

• On the bayou, rebuilding culture along with homes

  GRAND BAYOU, La. — Guests at the dedication of homes built by Mennonite Disaster Service had to get there by boat.

July 6, 2009 issue

• MDS work in La. mends houses and relationships

  NEW IBERIA, La. — In just four weeks, Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers from northern New York built a new house to replace one destroyed by Hurricane Gustav.

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