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Prison theater project reveals ‘freedom behind bars’

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Bethel College student Emily Simpson’s time in prison taught her more than she’d imagined.

It might not be what you think. Simpson, nine other Bethel students and their professor, director of theater John McCabe-Juhnke, spent several dozen hours behind the razor wire, heavy stone walls and locked doors of Hutchinson Correctional Facility during Bethel’s January interterm.

They were collaborating with seven HCF inmates on Inside Story, a collection of dramatic sketches . . .

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April 14, 2014

Director helps students be part of something bigger

ROSEDALE, Ohio — Every year at Rosedale Bible College, the stage in the chapel undergoes a transformation, students wander about practicing lines and examining their motivation, and Christa J. Wolf works her considerable magic as a director.

Veteran director of 24 full-length productions, Wolf teaches Introduction to Dramatic Arts and Directing for the Stage. She is a Rosedale alum and began working on campus productions in 2004.

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April 14, 2014

Traditions drive Amish survival

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Why have the Amish survived? Cory Anderson says it boils down to one word: babies.

Anderson, a member of a Beachy Amish Mennonite church and a doctoral candidate in rural sociology at Ohio State University, addressed a room full of Amish Mennonites at Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies on March 20.

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April 7, 2014

Patient endurance

The book of the Revelation to John has with good reason been called the most revealing book of the Bible. Its message is a call to relentless persistence in the work of witnessing to God’s way to run the world, which was lived and taught by Jesus. And it is an ear-splitting proclamation that the ways of greed, consumption and homicidal violence will fail miserably, while those who practice love and generosity will endure forever.

April 1, 2014

The armor of light

We live in a culture that glorifies war and violence. We are taught—paradoxically—that this is the way to peace. How do we, as followers of Jesus, who taught us instead to love our enemies, question this assumption? How do we offer other ways to go about bringing change in our world, ways that build up rather than destroy? As Christians we need to live into and tell another story, one that we know is life-giving, right and true …

April 1, 2014
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