Articles : Arts and media
Nov. 17 issue
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‘Geez’ magazine makes ‘holy mischief’
Geez Magazine, a Canadian quarterly whose motto is “holy mischief in an age of fast faith,” has won several awards in both the religious and secular sectors.
Oct. 20 issue
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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.
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Unusual name, great writer
What do you know about arguably the first Mennonite author of either gender to write commercially successful novels?
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Theologian connects film and faith at arts festival
CHELTENHAM, U.K. — A Mennonite theologian spoke to more than 1,700 people at the annual Greenbelt Christian Arts Festival Aug. 28-31 at the Cheltenham Race Course in western England.
Sept. 29 issue
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Musical comedy will premiere at EMU
HARRISONBURG, Va. — For those who’ve asked, “What Would Lloyd Do?”, some possible answers to this not-so-rhetorical question are provided in a new play — with music written by and starring Ted Swartz and Trent Wagler — which will premiere Oct. 10-11 at Eastern Mennonite University’s homecoming and parents weekend.
Sept. 22 issue
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A decade online for ‘Third Way’
HARRISONBURG, Va. — In fall 1998, Google had just come on the scene. Only 24 percent of U.S. households were connected to the Internet.
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All ages on the same page
When Mennonite Publishing Network integrated its congregational worship resources and “Gather ’Round” Sunday school materials around a unified theme this summer, Bonita Howard found an answer to her prayers for connecting the generations.
Sept. 8 issue
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Hymn sing: peak experience
MINERAL COUNTY, W.Va. — The phone call from Uncle Phil Dayton, my mom’s youngest brother, came weeks before the event, a personal invitation, and I thought, yes, why not? We pass this way but once.
Sept. 1 issue
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Two book review editors, one church
CHICAGO — With hundreds of thousands of books published each year, magazine review sections help separate the wheat from the chaff.
Aug. 11 issue
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We track with ‘The Shack’
“I’m not too big on religion,” Jesus tells Mack in The Shack, an unconventional novel that has enraptured Christians of all stripes in the last 12 months, “and not very fond of politics or economics, either.”

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