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Amid decaying buildings, dusty streets and behind miles upon miles of razor wire fence is the township of Edendale on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Along the main road leading into Edendale sits the Bonginkosi Preschool (http://bonginkosi.wordpress.com), a Christian preschool which has served children aged 2-6 in Edendale since 1976. Smiling faces and shouts…
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Column by Chris Graham “If I forget everything else when I get old and gray,” a friend told me Tuesday night, “I hope I never forget this feeling.” I understood completely what he was saying, because I had just had a similar thought myself. CNN and Fox News had just called the presidential race in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve known Alice Leonhardt for years, but I didn’t know this about her. She wrote, illustrated and self-published her first book at age 7. Which puts me about 25 years behind her, and that’s not accounting for my lack of illustration skills. Starting from a very early age, obviously, then,…
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Column by Jim Bishop The five o’clock traffic jam whistle has sounded – yabba dabba doooooo! – time to shut down the computer, turn off lights, lock up the office and welcome the weekend. Suddenly, I noticed the white ring around the fourth finger of my left hand where my wedding band should be. What…
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Staff Report Five Bridgewater College athletics standouts will be inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Friday night in the Kline Campus Center as part of BC’s Homecoming Weekend.
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Column by Shepherd Bliss “Come to the table,” Slow Food Nation invited. And come to San Francisco over Labor Day weekend they did — around 50,000 people attending perhaps the largest food celebration in American history. Tables and straw bales appeared in the heart of the city’s Civic Center around a victory garden on about…
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Op-ed by Rick Gray Timing is everything. Four years ago, on Christmas night, I flew to Manchester, N.H., to spend a week of my precious winter holiday knocking on doors for Howard Dean. This year, I’ve slapped a McCain sticker on my bumper and agreed to write this piece. Let me explain. I’m a liberal,…
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Story by Chris Edwards At the fourth annual conference of Mennonite higher-education faculty – held this year for the first time at Eastern Mennonite University – two keynote speakers approached the theme, “Creation, Christ and the Classroom,” from opposite perspectives, theological and temporal. They spoke Aug. 8-9 to about 45 faculty, plus several graduate students,…
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Story by Edward Tutwiler “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot Looking backwards on missed opportunities…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College presented three Merlin E. and Dorothy Faw Garber Awards for Christian Service during the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference held in Richmond. Receiving the awards at the College’s alumni luncheon on July 13 were Daniel Rudy, a 2008 graduate from Mount Airy, Md., Claire Gilbert Ulrich, a…
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