Abby King '20 & Marisa Smucker '94 shared stories in morning worship July 4 at the Mennonite Church USA convention about how they experienced transformation when they encountered God at work in their lives.
At the Mennonite Church USA convention in Kansas City, Jerrell and Jane Ross Richer and Sarah Augustine led a seminar called “Speaking to the Systems and Walking with Indigenous People.” The Richers work half the year with the Cofán people of eastern Ecuador, while in the other half Jerrell teaches at Goshen College.
The Goshen College men’s soccer team has a new head coach. Victor Newberg, 31, was hired May 31.
Twenty-one Goshen College athletes, coaches and teachers went on a three-week mini-SST trip to the Dominican Republic.
It’s the sixth year Goshen College has taught a class inside the Elkhart County jail south of Elkhart, but the first without Carolyn Schrock-Shenk, who brought the program to GC and Elkhart County.
In the last decade or so, there has been an explosion of eateries in Goshen that are committed to serving local, sustainably grown fare and have formed close relationships with area farms, many started and run by Goshen College alumni.
Philipp Gollner is assistant professor of U.S. history at Goshen (Ind.) College and book review editor for Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Rebecca Stoltzfus says accepting the presidency of Goshen College was “one of the scariest decisions I have ever made.” Drawn to “the possibility of education that integrates reason and love,” she now says, “there is no place I would rather be.”
You need a lot of food for 11 college students and their three guides as they prepare a seven-day trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness during a May term class.
Although the ethics around eating meat can be polarized, experiencing how our food comes to us—and the processes and relationships around it—can help us understand our places, others and ourselves.
