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.
Mennonite understandings of mission went through a major shift in the mid-twentieth century.
A conference minister reflecting on a congregation’s search committee process where a number of potentially good pastors were passed over blurted out to me, “I would like to tell them ‘pastors don’t grow on trees!’” I laughed, but later it got me to thinking of where pastors do grow.
In addition to finding a path back to God in Goshen, Hedrick also developed a fondness for the American Midwest. So after the 25-year-old Pennsylvania native finished her graduate work at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, walking away with a Master’s of Divinity degree and a calling to the ministry, she decided that she wanted to return to the Midwest.
Philipp Gollner will bring his interests in religion, migration, space, race and ethnicity to Goshen College this fall as a new assistant professor of U.S. history. An Austrian native, Gollner moved to the United States in 2006.
Saulo Padilla '05 works for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. as coordinator for the Immigration Education National Program. His passion to work with immigrants comes from his own experience as the son of a refugee and immigrant, as well as the biblical call to welcome the stranger.
Sixteen Goshen College students are participating in summer research projects through the college’s Maple Scholars Program.
Jason B. Kauffman of Durham, North Carolina, has been named full-time director of archives and records management for the denomination’s Executive Board (EB) staff, effective July 1, 2016.
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."
The history of Spanish-speaking Mennonites in the 20th Century is chronicled in a new book called “Historia del Menonitismo Hispanohablante: 1917-1990," by Rafael Falcón, professor emeritus of Spanish at Goshen College.
Jo-Ann Brant, professor of Bible, religion and philosophy, answers seven questions for The Mennonite's weekly series.