Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Arts and media

Nov. 21, 2011 issue

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  Photo by Tim Huber/MWR

  Singing together with love

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — It was cause not for celebration, but for singing. More than 150 people gathered at Bethel College Mennonite Church Nov. 11 for an evening hymn sing that preceded the Beth­el College drama department’s performance of The Lara­mie Project: Ten Years Later.

  As members of the Bethel, Hess­ton and Tabor college communities raised their voices together, members of Fred Phelps’ Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church raised picket signs at a protest in a poorly lit public park at 24th and Main streets a few blocks away.

Nov. 7, 2011 issue

• Prof teaches theology with the music of U2

  Can a rock band teach theology? U2 has been doing it for 30 years, says a Fresno (Calif.) Pacific University professor.

Oct. 17, 2011 issue

• Steel Wheels pedal their way to 10 shows in 3 states

  The Steel Wheels isn’t the first band to literally make their music mobile, but the Americana quartet attests that cycling gives new meaning to the idea of touring.

May 9, 2011 issue

• Good news spreads in South Africa

  PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa — Hungry children are being fed, students of peace are learning nonviolent responses to conflict, and ordinary people are making extraordinary sacrifices to bring hope and justice to those on the margins.

April 25, 2011 issue

• ‘Together’ outreach paper ends

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — This Easter, for the first time in 23 years, the mainly Mennonite eight-page church-outreach publication Together did not appear in thousands of mailboxes across the U.S. and Canada.

March 28, 2011 issue

• Goshen radio station named best in nation

  GOSHEN, Ind. — Goshen College’s radio station, WGCS 91.1 FM-The Globe, isn’t a huge operation, but the sounds coming out of it are making a big impact.

Feb. 21, 2011 issue

• Many styles, one Spirit of song

  CHICAGO — When Rodrick Dixon starts to sing “Comfort Ye,” audience members clap and tap their feet with the rhythm. His voice carries over the orchestra and jazz band.

Feb. 7, 2011 issue

• Plowshares sculpture in Washington moved again

  A sculpture by Mennonite artists, symbolizing peacemaking in Washington, has been moved again without the artists’ knowledge.

• Spreading the gospel in a digital age

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Before the Internet, one of the more public ways for a church to communicate to members and non-members alike was on its roadside sign.

Dec. 6, 2010 issue

• A ‘life in performance’ is honored

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. – A new endowed chair at Bethel College recognizes John McCabe-Juhnke’s “life in performance” at Bethel and beyond.

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