Planning is a gateway for the future. A gateway creates a transition between
one space and another, links from one time to another and makes possible interactions
among diverse people.
A Pilgrimage of Peace:
Literature and Conflict Studies in the Republic and Northern Ireland
Associate Professor of Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Joe Liechty, who spent
two decades involved in reconciliation work in Northern Ireland, and Associate
Professor of English Ann Hostetler, a published poet, led a group of students
to Ireland and Northern Ireland for several weeks
She was the first woman in the Mennonite Church to earn a doctorate and the first
woman to have a campus building named in her honor, and her favorite foods included
butter horn rolls and burnt sugar angel food cake.
Goshen College students study civil rights era during May term on storied soil
By Jennifer Rupp ’06
In Memphis, Tenn., in front of the Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King,
Jr. was shot, Molly Moyer experienced feelings that would not have been inspired
by a textbook or even watching a documentary.
Faculty and alumni featured in latest ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ book
When bookstore browsers see the newest title in the “Chicken Soup for the
Soul® series – Stories for a Better World – they will find
101 stories of love, tolerance, forgiveness and peace by a former U.S. president,
Nobel Peace Prize winners and six Goshen College alumni.
Meeting ‘Malcolm, Martin and the Mennonites’ in May
By Jodi H. Beyeler
Standing in front of a classroom of Goshen College students, Malinda Berry
moved deftly between defining theological words, such as “atonement” and “theodicy,” to
showing video clips of Martin Luther King Jr. at a Civil Rights march to soliciting
opinions regarding interracial dating.
