Interview with author Anita Hooley Yoder ’07
Anita Hooley Yoder '07 is author of the new book, Circles of Sisterhood, which explores the history of Mennonite women’s groups.
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‘Sisterhood in Florida’ by Anita Hooley Yoder ’07 – The Mennonite
While I was working on a book about Mennonite women’s organizations, I wanted to experience diverse and vibrant Mennonite women’s activities firsthand. I met interesting people and heard important stories at women’s gatherings across the country. But it was a trip to south Florida in November 2015 that provided an especially unique and inspiring glimpse of what Mennonite women are up to today.
GAMEO finds new home at Goshen College
The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO), the most trusted online source for information on Anabaptist groups around the world, has found a new home with the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) at Goshen College.
‘Congolese Mennonite resiliency’ by Professor of History John D. Roth ’81 in The Mennonite
Let us also recall the lives of Norbort Khongolo and Corneille Malula; let us remember Pascal Kulungu and the Center for Peacebuilding, Leadership and Good Governance; let us pray daily for the security of our Congolese Mennonite brothers and sisters and for all those in the world who live in fear; and let us not shrink back from the call to be peacemakers in a violent world, even if the cost is high and the weight of history seems overwhelming.
Jeff Peachey ’88 restores rare 1564 Ausbund for Mennonite Historical Library
The Mennonite Historical Library (MHL) at Goshen College owns the world’s only surviving copy of the first printing, in 1564, of songs that eventually became the Ausbund, one of the first Anabaptist songbooks and the Protestant hymnal in longest continuous use — by the Old Order Amish.
Mikhail Fernandes ’16 and other young adults grapple with practical peacebuilding – Mennonite Central Committee
Mikhail Fernandes '16 and other young adults address issues every June when they attend Global Anabaptist Peacebuilders (GAP) Institute, which is sponsored by West Coast Mennonite Central Committee (MCC).
Biology for service: Archival traces of Mennonite environmentalist thought – MCUSA
Jason Kauffman '04, director of Archives and Records Management for Mennonite Church USA, explores how Mennonites have approached environmental thinking over the years.
Anita Hooley Yoder ’07: A mission to themselves: changing views of mission in North American Mennonite women’s organizations – Anabaptist Witness
Mennonite understandings of mission went through a major shift in the mid-twentieth century.
The world in print – Mennonite World Review
On Sept. 18, 1923, the first issue of a four-page newspaper appeared in Newton, Kan., bearing the grandiose title of Mennonite Weekly Review. The goal, according to H.P. Krehbiel, president of the Herald Publishing Co., was to provide “an English Mennonite periodical suitable particularly to the needs of the Middle West.”
Less strict, still vigilant – Mennonite World Review
Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan’s classic 17th-century spiritual autobiography, describes the Christian life as a tale of a solitary individual on a long and difficult journey.