I’ve spent years wanting to believe while trying to make up for being me
I was sweating in bed, as one does on a June night in Chad, when I began to hear rumbling noises. My first thought was thunder, but it didn’t follow the typical thunder-and-lightning pattern.
I contracted polio in 1946 at age 3. To my knowledge, I was the first wheelchair user at Goshen College. Crutch walking was barely possible at my level of paralysis.
My experience of growing up Menonita (Mennonite) was different than that of the typical Mennonite in the north.
As Germany once again discusses compulsory military service, Bruno Sägesser of Switzerland is celebrating a very personal anniversary this week: 50 years ago, he refused to do military service in Switzerland and was court-martialed.
Here in Burkina Faso, we have been confronted with terrorist attacks for more than four years. It is an inexplicable situation, because no one has claimed responsibility.
CLINTON, Okla. — On Oct. 8, mainstream communities in the U.S. were preparing to usher in Columbus Day, a noncelebration for Native people. In North Dakota, the Standing Rock standoff continued on the land where many tribes have gathered to voice their fears for the Earth by opposing the construction of an oil pipeline.
