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Articles : March 5, 2012

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Editorial

Taxing conscience one war at a time

In the most recent flare-up of the culture wars, the White House sparred with bishops, nuns and other Catholic leadership over a plan to require religiously based hospitals, schools and charities to include contraception coverage in all employees’ health plans. The backlash prompted a revision that shifted to insurance companies the responsibility to arrange for the coverage and pay for it.

Feature

EMM helps establish new outpost in southern Sudan

MOROBO, South Sudan — In January, Eastern Mennonite Missions worker Hedi Lee helped install two long-term East African missionaries in Morobo, a community tied to a transformative moment in her life.
Being Anabaptist at a seminary that’s not

From sixth grade through college, Krista Showalter Ehst attended Mennonite schools, which partly led to her decision to attend a non-Mennonite seminary.
In Europe, touching history moves faith deeper

ROSEDALE, Ohio — When 22 Rosedale Bible College students landed in Paris on Jan. 24, they were prepared to see great art and ready to visit places where Anabaptists found shelter or a martyr’s death. They were even willing to brave the coldest European winter in decades.
Texas church plant grows from search for deeper faith

When Karen and Steve Mascho of Gladewater, Texas, first encountered Mennonites in April 2010, they never imagined that 15 months later they’d be planting a Mennonite church in their own community.
China trip uncovers century-old connections

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — When Bethel College President Perry White and his wife, Dalene, joined a cross-cultural course to China, they were following protocol. They were also walking in the footsteps of history.
With tunnel, a train no excuse for being late

GOSHEN, Ind. — The train track that passes through the heart of the Goshen College campus — dividing most of the classrooms from most of the residence halls — is deeply fused in a love-hate relationship with the nostalgic memories of alumni about their college experience: