Mary K. Oyer, a music professor who influenced many Mennonites’ relationship with the fine arts, died Jan. 11 in Goshen, Ind. The Goshen College professor emerita of music and former professor of church music at what is now Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary was 100.
About 150 activists from Mennonite congregations across the United States were arrested Jan. 16 in Washington, D.C., as they sang songs of peace and called on Congress to support a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and the release of all hostages in the war with Israel.