CNN video - Mennonites on the election
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At a roundtable discussion held at Goshen College on May 6, 2008, Mennonite students in Indiana talk to CNN’s Rick Sanchez about issues important to them this election year.
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Good work, team! Even though I am here in Spain, I still plan to catch the video on cnn.com tonight
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Posted by Sheldon Good, on May 6th, 2008 at 5:00 amI have been a Roman Catholic for 55 years. I became a member of the faith when I was about the age of the students from Goshen that were on CNN just a minute ago. It was wonderful to see the love of Christ in their faces. I saw myself right in there with them. I will remain a Catholic inspite of the fact that I have a greater kinship with these young people than I do with most Catholics. We survive in the Church because of the support of the Benedictine Sisters of St. Walburg in Northern KY. We are Benedictine Oblates. We live in Aurora, IN but we worship with them. I wish that some of them could have seen your students on CNN but I think that they were in morning prayer at that hour.
Posted by Richard Schladen, on May 6th, 2008 at 6:41 amI just saw the interview your students, who are first time voters gave on CNN. I am glad that our next generation understand what humanity and globalization really mean. There is still hope for our country and the world, in spite of the violence all around us. Congratulations.
Posted by C.P. Vasudevan, on May 6th, 2008 at 10:44 amThose are some really good kids that were on CNN! How refreshing. I hadn’t heard that kind of intelligence on that channel since………………..well, hmmmmm……ever. Thanks for teaching them properly.
Posted by Garry Minor, Columbus, Indiana:, on May 6th, 2008 at 10:44 amPlease transmit this message to the group of students who appeared today on CNN’s broadcast (League of First Time Voters):
My name is Noa Zanolli and I am writing to you from Switzerland. I was most heartened by your response to (CNN’s) Rick Sanchez’ question regarding Sen. Obama’s assertion that he would talk with enemies of the U.S. I commend you wholeheartedly for your stand and your opinion. I was most impressed about the manner you responded to this controversial and most essential question.
I am passionate about the idea that it is indispensable to talk with one’s enemies. I suggest that bringing this topic—talking with one’s enemies—into the public mind and debating it widely would be of utmost importance: it would impact the world as it can avoid wars and stop ongoing violence. Because I am trying all I can on my part to propagate the idea by all means I know how, I am writing to you as well. I would like to tell you about a provocative booklet I just published: “A Conversation between President George W. Bush and Sheikh Osama bin Laden.” It carries the idea to talk with one’s enemies to the extreme in order to incite minds into thinking the impossible and bringing some kind of reality to the mandate to love your enemy.
Posted by Dr. Noa Zanolli, Bern, Switzerland, on May 6th, 2008 at 4:44 pmThank you for launching the timely web site focused on Faith and Politics, the content of which I read with great interest. As a resident of Pennsylvania, I experienced the exciting primary here a few weeks ago. That event led the Blossom Hill Mennonite Church’s Peace Committee (on which I serve) to discuss the “faith and politics” issue at some length. While reading the news online this morning, I was thinking about the Indiana primary. I therefore welcomed the note from you, Mr. Jones, alerting me to the new GC site. I graduated from GC in 1997 after a formative undergraduate experience. I do not get back to campus, so I have become particularly appreciative of these sorts of updates.
I am a firm believer that Mennonite institutions of higher education must embrace the occasional discomfort that results from pushing intellectual boundaries and encouraging the development of fresh perspectives in Mennonite college students, perspectives that, with proper cultivation, can inform the broader Mennonite church. Without these pioneering efforts in our colleges, we risk allowing the Mennonite world view to grow stagnant or lose relevancy.
Posted by Ryan J. Sauder, on May 6th, 2008 at 6:46 pm