{"id":14759,"date":"2012-11-06T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=14759"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:18:20","slug":"alumni-provide-lessons-of-peace-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/alumni-provide-lessons-of-peace-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mennonite College Alumni Model Lessons of Peace in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two families linked to Mennonite colleges playfully provided Harrisonburg, Va. residents with a lesson in friendship this election season.<\/p>\n<p>The couples, each with a son and daughter who love socializing with each other, put up opposing political placards before their homes on opposite sides of their street, not far from the EMU campus. <a href=\"\/personnel\/people\/show\/mms326?ssi=history\">Mark Metzler Sawin<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goshen.edu\">Goshen College<\/a> graduate who teaches <a href=\"\/history\/\">history<\/a> at EMU, occupies the \u201cblue\u201d residence with his wife Erika, another Goshen grad. Two EMU alumni make their home in the &#8220;red&#8221; house.<\/p>\n<p>When the children asked their parents what this meant to their friendships, the families put up the second set of signs pointing to the other yard: \u201cAnd we\u2019re STILL friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo has garnered more than 14,000 &#8220;likes&#8221; on the Facebook page for the non-profit group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOther98\">The Other 98%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seminary alum calls for Election Day Communion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another alumnus, Mark Schloneger (a grad of Goshen and of EMU&#8217;s seminary), wrote a CNN blog explaining the call for an election-day communion. Posted on Nov. 3, 2012, the blog attracted over 3,400 comments and nearly 4,000 likes in less than three days.<\/p>\n<p>More than 800 congregations, schools, and groups in all\u00a050\u00a0states and Washington, D.C., have declared that they are holding an <a href=\"http:\/\/electiondaycommunion.org\/participating-congregations\/\">election-day communion<\/a>. Seventy-one of these communions are in Virginia. The Virginia list includes Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, and Mennonite churches, including these in the Harrisonburg area: Community Mennonite, Lindale Mennonite, Park View Mennonite, Weavers Mennonite, and Zion Mennonite.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, <a href=\"\/now\/news\/2012\/11\/transcending-and-transforming-politics-on-election-day\/\">read the related news story<\/a> on transforming politics on election day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two families linked to Mennonite colleges playfully provided Harrisonburg, Va. residents with a lesson in friendship this election season. 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