HESSTON, Kan. — Donors’ support and lower costs kept Mennonite World Review Inc. budget balanced in 2014 as income increased and print circulation declined. At
Speaking at Mennonite World Review Inc. annual corporation meeting March 6 at Hesston College, Duane Goossen said politics is fundamentally about how people with different ideas and values live together.
Goossen is senior fellow at the Kansas Center for Economic Growth and a member of Southern Hills Mennonite Church in Topeka.
Max Villatoro, pastor of Iglesia Menonita Torre Fuerte (First Mennonite Church) . . .
The congregation, which takes an affirming stance toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, had been a nonvoting member for 10 years.
Working as a custom home builder in 1995, Goossen fell from a balcony, whipping his neck and bruising his spinal cord. His arms and legs were paralyzed. Intensive care and extensive rehabilitation followed.
The student was sexually abused by a teacher, Matthew David Yoder, who pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree sex abuse in March 2014. He was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
LMS superintendent Richard Thomas said the opportunity came as a surprise.
A 1748 edition, translated from Dutch to German and then published in Ephrata, Pa., will be also available.
Additionally, two English editions will be at the rare book auction, one published in 1886 . . .
A broad spectrum of Amish, Brethren in Christ and Mennonites came together around the theme, “A Touch of Love Awakens a Taste of Hope,” discussing how love awakens hope when disaster strikes.
Michelle Pruitt, owner of a new MDS-built home in Crisfield, Md., spoke about escaping Superstorm Sandy and the loss of her home of 30 years.
Qom is the original name of the Chaco’s Toba indigenous people — a name they are reclaiming.
