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Avoiding avoidance: Why I assigned Yoder’s ‘Body Politics’

Editor's note: This was originally published in the May 2014 issue, Vol. 68 of Mennonite Life, an illustrated online annual published by Bethel College that is devoted to

malindaberry

February 26, 2015

50 athletes shave heads to support cancer victims

Bluffton (Ohio) University baseball players are in various stages of baldness Feb. 25 as stylists from The Curling Iron, a Bluffton salon, shave their heads—part

Bluffton University

February 26, 2015

Who defines the common good?

Who determines what is in the "common good" and "national interest"? These terms are themselves so flexible as to be rendered nearly useless. Depending on

Marty Troyer

February 26, 2015

Rethinking the mission trip

During the recent 40th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live, they did some looking back. Some of my favorite sketches featured Jake and Elwood, the Blues Brothers. The

Glenn Balzer

February 25, 2015

Students hope for real cultural exchange

A group of college students who attended Hope for the Future 2015. This was the first year that college students were invited to the event,

Wil LaVeist

February 24, 2015

Iris de León-Hartshorn to receive ‘Race, Church and Change Award’

Iris de León-Hartshorn, director of transformative peacemaking for Mennonite Church USA, has been named the recipient of the Luther Seminary’s “Race, Church and Change Award”

Luther Seminary staff

February 24, 2015

No more milestones on Facebook

Libby Ringenberg's first year of life was chronicled on Facebook. I stopped posting my children’s developmental milestones on Facebook. I come from a large close-knit

Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg

February 24, 2015

Why I love being a black girl

I have led a number of conversations on white privilege. The conversations have a tendency to all go the same direction. We as facilitators often

Austin Channing Brown

February 24, 2015

Canned meat provided drought relief in Central America

The Mennonite Central Committee canners for 2014-2015 are David Hochstetler, Shickley, Neb.; Raynor Krahn, Para Todo, Paraguay; Stanley Toews, Loma Plata, Paraguay; and Toby Penner, Para Todo, Paraguay.

Emily Loewen

February 23, 2015

Filmmaker explores humor in Low German culture

There’s a stereotype floating around that filmmaker Orlando Braun doesn’t like. The stiff Mennonite farmer who traded his sense of a humor for a new seed company hat just isn’t true, and Braun wants to prove it.

Now a director and producer in Winnipeg, Man., Braun was born in Paraguay and spent some of his childhood there before his family moved to Manitoba. He grew up speaking Plautdietsch (Low German) and feels humor is intrinsic to Mennonite culture.

Tim Huber | Mennonite World Review

February 23, 2015

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