GOSHEN, Indiana — James E. Brenneman announced on Aug. 17 that he will step down from his role as the 16th president of Goshen College at the end of the 2016-17 academic year, concluding 11 and a half years of service to the college.
DENVER — The U.S. Mennonite Brethren national convention July 29‐30 was all about moving forward toward an unknown future.
An effort to mobilize potential Amish voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio to support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is continuing in spite of a decision by one nationally read newspaper to drop a political action committee’s advertising.
On a Sunday afternoon, after a sedate morning worship gathering, I took a hand-lettered sign and boarded the train to join whatever marchers might be gathering in downtown Atlanta after the latest spate of gun violence and national hurt. I found a crowd assembling in Woodruff Park at the foot of the avenue that leads to Martin Luther King’s birth home and the renowned Ebenezer Baptist Church.