Articles : June 27, 2005
Editorial
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Suffering and joy in center of gravity
Christianity’s center of gravity has shifted to the global South. For Mennonites the pull is strongest in Africa. Recent news from that continent — home to a third of the world’s Mennonites and Brethren in Christ — reminds us of the need to pray for and to act in solidarity with believers there.
Feature
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Critics: Mideast activists one-sided
JERUSALEM — Sally Hunsberger, a Washington, D.C.-based statistician, doesn’t spend much of her vacation time with her husband and two children.
News
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Bluffton football trip to Italy links sport, culture
BLUFFTON, Ohio — Bluffton University’s football team fulfilled an academic requirement along with a gridiron goal when they competed in Italy recently.
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Devotional magazine to get a new design, features
WATERLOO, Ont. — The inter- Mennonite devotional magazine Rejoice! will launch a new design this fall featuring photos on the cover, a new logo, a larger typeface and more pages for inspirational stories and poetry.
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German professor urges ecumenical peace effort
WATERLOO, Ont. — A Mennonite professor from Germany’s Heidelberg University brought a message of peace and ecumenism to Conrad Grebel University College on March 16-17.
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House churches in Thailand come of age
PALANCHAI, Thailand — A circle of house churches begun by Mennonite mission workers became fully self-governing May 22.
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Iraqis study peacemaking at EMU
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Though friends sometimes chide him for being too optimistic, Laith Hassan of Iraq holds onto hope for his battered country.
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Panel to resume dialogue over Lutheran statement
STRASBOURG, France — Does the condemnation of Anabaptists spelled out in the 1530 Augsburg Confession apply to Mennonite churches today?
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Doctor to Amish aids tsunami survivors
Years of working with Amish patients and making house calls in rural Ohio have given physician Elton Lehman a taste for medicine far from a hospital or laboratory.
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Bethel professor was women’s advocate
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Anna Kreider Juhnke, a former Bethel College English professor known as much for her advocacy of women in the church and academia as for her devotion to teaching, died June 17 at her home after a long battle with cancer. She was 65.
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