Articles : April 9, 2007
Editorial
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Mutual aid alter call
More than 46 million Americans lack health insurance. This is “immoral and intolerable,” says a Mennonite Church USA document. But it is beyond the church’s power to solve. On a much smaller scale, however, the denomination is trying to fix its own version of the problem: the fact that 70 to 100 MC USA pastors are uninsured.
Feature
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Initiative produces more racial, ethnic diversity
FRESNO, Calif. — The large three-ring binder on Jill Schellenberg’s desk offers a rainbow of colored pages. The variety of hue is appropriate because the document is titled “Life Together: Campus Diversity Initiative.”
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Students prepare to welcome a refugee
WATERLOO, Ont. — Each year, the Peace Society at Conrad Grebel University College focuses on a specific issue relating to peace and social justice.
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Impulse for mission affirmed in Africa
ROSEDALE, Ohio — In the last two years, Ethan Mast watered fodder trees for goats in Gambia, learned to sing “Amazing Grace” in Mandinka and fell in love with the world of language.
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South African finds homecoming in Ohio
BLUFFTON, Ohio — Unless they are children of a faculty or staff member, few toddlers grow up on a university campus. Fewer still return to the same campus to earn their college degrees.
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Doctor serves African children
GRANTHAM, Pa. — He brought her to Macha Mission Hospital from a remote village. The father now sits at the bedside of his infant daughter, who is showing signs of severe dehydration.
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Center links mission, spiritual formation
HILLSBORO, Kan. — Move over, Bunsen burners. There’s a new type of lab at Tabor College.
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Diversity benefits from resources close at hand
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — One of the most concrete contributions of diversity to Bethel College takes a fairly modest appearance on campus.
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In Indonesia, MCC helps provide refuge from stigma of AIDS
JAYAPURA, Indonesia — On Saturday evenings, Eka sometimes takes a break from life’s difficulties to watch a TV soap opera with friends at a support group shelter in Indonesia’s Papua province.
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Education shapes worldview
WINNIPEG, Man. — Last fall, a curriculum committee at Harvard University recommended that every student at that university be required to take one course in religion. In making the recommendation, the committee stated that it is important for graduates to know “the role of religion in contemporary, historical, or future events — personal, cultural, national or international.”
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