In 2001 Time magazine named Stanley Hauerwas, recently retired professor at Duke Divinity School, America’s Best Theologian. But Nicholas M. Healy, in his new book
Outgoing bishops committee chair David Yoder of Partridge said the multiyear drafting process was initiated to define what the Beachy Amish believe.
“A number of years ago, there was a conservative element that began asking questions: ‘Are others in our constituency no longer doing our practices? Do they belong in the constituency?’ ” he said. “We’ve taken a journey to find who we really are. We’re asking what defines us, what makes us significantly different from other conservative Anabaptist groups.”
Fredette, a CMU music student, took Opera Workshop this school year. Participants study selections from operatic literature during the fall term and then perform them over the course of three or four nights at the beginning of the winter term.
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 . . .
