Mike Hostetler ’68 uses Goshen as inspiration for first novel
After Mike Hostetler's retirement from academia in 2011, he knew the Goshen area would serve as inspiration as he embarked on his first novel, “Held Goes Forth.”
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Kenneth Nafziger ’63 – EMU Crossroads
In trying to sum up Kenneth J. Nafziger’s 30 years as music professor at Eastern Mennonite University, it is hard to know where to start.
This Kind of World Building :: An Interview with Sofia Samatar ’94 – Weird Sister
Luckily, there are authors and books out there like Sofia Samatar’s The Winged Histories (the sequel to A Stranger in Olondria, though it can totally stand on its own, too), a fantastic tale of an ancient war and four women both brought together and torn apart by it’s horrors, all doing their very best to change my perception on the whole fantasy genre.
Lisa Schirch ’90 finishes first-of-a-kind curriculum to improve civilian-security sector relations – EMU News
Lisa Schirch '09, a research professor with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, released a 300-page "Handbook on Human Security: A Civil-Military-Police Curriculum."
Well-traveled Michelle Milne ’94 keeps roots in hometown – The Goshen News
Born and raised in Goshen, Michelle Milne divides her time between her hometown, Chicago, Oregon and Arizona.
Shalom justice: Reflections on events in Hesston by Michele Hershberger ’83
It’s been a crazy last couple of days. Hearing the gun shots in my kitchen that afternoon, I shook my head at whoever that silly hunter was out there. “Someone’s hunting too close to town,” I said to myself. Then…the text message that Hesston College was on lockdown, the sirens, the people running past my house. I was motionless, in disbelief.
Amya Miller ’89: An American woman’s extended act of mercy in a tsunami-hit Japanese town – The Washington Post
Amya Miller '89 gave up her crisis management company and left her family behind almost five years ago to volunteer in the town of Rikuzentakata after it was virtually wiped out by a tsunami on March 11, 2011.
Guided by Voices: Finding Grace Through Shape-Note Singing – The Virginia Quarterly Review
Robert S. Brunk '63 reflects on his experience studying with Mary Oyer '45 at Goshen College and the impact it made on his life.
Madeleine Yoder ’15: ‘Land is Life:’ Advocating for Indigenous Cambodians’ Land Rights
Madeleine Yoder '15 is an Advocacy Program Assistant at Building Community Voices and MCC SALT participant.
Kathy Meyer Reimer ’83: Using books to teach, lead and inspire – The Good of Goshen
Kathy Meyer Reimer '83 is a Goshen College elementary education professor, and her enthusiasm for education and literature is infectious.