Ray Gingerich Archives

Civil rights activist, pastor and social work professor Titus Bender was a catalyst for social change

December 13, 2017Last updated December 15, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

When African American civil rights activist Vincent Harding and his wife visited Meridian, Mississippi, in the early 1960s, they met Titus Bender for the first time. Bender, then a Mennonite

New Orie O. Miller biography to be celebrated by contemporaries at Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society meeting

May 5, 2015Last updated January 6, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

He has seen more of the world than Marco Polo. He has opened more mission fields than David Livingstone. He has been as innovative in his world of church ministries

Veteran peacebuilder discusses global climate change as a destabilizing social and political threat

February 9, 2015Last updated April 18, 2017 by Robert Propst

Global climate change and human conflict are two different problems, dealt with by different groups, right? Wrong. In fact, the United States military combats terrorism and climate change. Both are

Academics in the field of numbers

March 18, 2014Last updated June 18, 2014 by Kara

“When I first began working at Eastern Mennonite College,” recalls professor emeritus Wilmer Lehman ’57, “teaching at EMC was seen as a kind of mission of the church.” Back in the

Yoder’s Book Probes Jewish-Christian Rift

February 14, 2007 by Jim Bishop

It didn’t have to be! Two world religions, Christianity and Judaism, didn’t have to split the way they did. That’s the belief of the late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder

New Book Details Personal Encounters With Biblical Text

September 13, 2006 by Jim Bishop

How does the church address differences? How can the struggle draw persons together rather than drive them apart? A new book, “Telling Our Stories: Personal Accounts of Engagement with Scripture,”