North America

Quilting cultures

ELKHART, Ind. — Several women stood around the nascent quilt spread on the floor of Hively Avenue Mennonite Church one Saturday last month. They were examining the illustrated pieces of cloth tentatively placed across it by two separate groups.

“See the contrast between the two halves,” said one of the quilters. “Theirs looks a little more . . . ”

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June 16, 2014

Teacher has a smaller audience

HARRISONBURG, Va. — After earning a degree in songwriting from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2006, Harrisonburg native John Hostetter moved to Tucson, Ariz. He spent two years playing guitar in a bluegrass band, then joined a rock band called Harlem, moved to Austin, Texas, and started to get recognized nationally.

“I lived [in Austin] for a summer, and a bunch of things happened all at once,” Hostetter said.

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June 9, 2014

Conservative Conference history to be released

ROSEDALE, Ohio — While writing the history of the Conservative Mennonite Conference, Nathan E. Yoder paid particular attention to the term “conservative.”

Conversations across the Mennonite family, he said, “have loaded a lot of rhetorical freight on labels such as ‘conservative’ and ‘evangelical.’ ”

He hopes his history of a group with “conservative” in its name can contribute to current discussion and discernment.

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June 9, 2014

Millions of Bibles

Christian Aid Ministries, based in Berlin, Ohio, takes a detailed approach to its year-end accounting of distributed aid. 2,493,884 pounds of rice. Three washing machines.

June 9, 2014
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