The violence of this pandemic has devastated peoples lives, communities, and degraded the quality of life. Unless there is cooperation among the world’s community, Africa is not able to overcome this pandemic. Tefsa Dalellew, co-director of Mennonite Central Committee-Africa is...
Tefsa Dalellew, storyteller from Ethiopia and co-director of Mennonite Central Committee-Africa
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Tefsa Dalellew, storyteller from Ethiopia and co-director of Mennonite Central Committee-Africa
President Jim Brenneman
President Jim Brenneman delivers a message to campus in this convocation. Click for audio file
Professor Doug Caskey and his ‘Power of Story’ Class
Doug Caskey, professor of theater and communication, and his “The Power of Story” class will lead us in worship through dramatic scripture presentations. Click for audio file
Goshen College study abroad program to return to Nicaragua, after 30 years
Goshen College will return to Nicaragua as a location for its unique study abroad program, Study-Service Term (SST), after 30 years in the summer of 2008, according to Director of International Education Tom Meyers. In 1978, the college stopped sending…
Bobby Meyer-Lee, Asst Professor of English
English professor Bobby Meyer-Lee will base his convocation remarks on his book published in February 2007 by Cambridge University Press titled Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt. Click for audio file
Led by Luke Gascho, executive director of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center
Luke Gascho, executive director of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center, leads this chapel entitled “Regenerative Stewardship of God’s Earth” Click for audio file
A Service of Singing, led by student Brad Graber
Brad Graber and others will lead us in a time of singing, prayer, and reflection as part of our chapel worship service. Click for audio file
'The Sea Gull', March 2007
The play explores the tensions between our need for other people and our oblivious lack of attention to those around us; our proximity to others along with our inability to connect to them.
Christian Peacemaker Team member Art Gish on his experience in Iraq
Art Gish returned in early March from a term as a Christian Peacemaker Team volunteer in Iraq. He will share stories from his experience in convocation and also visit several classes throughout the day. This convocation begins an Iraq Awareness...
Three students will share their stories of year-long volunteer service
Three students will share their stories of year-long volunteer service in the middle of their college education. Jenna Preheim spent one year in Fresno, CA with Mennonite Voluntary Service. Isaac Hooley spent one year with Mennonite Central Committee in Jamaica....
Prayer Service in honor of Bluffton University baseball team
The campus community is invited to gather for a prayer service honoring our sister school Bluffton University, and the recent tragic accident involving their baseball team. Click for audio file
Merry Lea’s green building outperforms energy projections
Somewhere in Appalachia, there is a big pile of extra coal: about 3.5 tons, or enough to fill five pick-up trucks. That's how much coal Rieth Village, a biological field station owned and operated by Merry Environmental Learning Center of…
Students Jeff Hochstetler and Tina Peters, and professor Kyle Schlabach
Come and encounter the Jesus of Mark’s Gospel through singing, scripture, and reflections. Students Jeff Hochstetler and Tina Peters, and professor Kyle Schlabach will share personal reflections of the “Jesus of Mark” they experienced based on their read-through of Mark’s...
Led by the Summer 2006 Peru SST group
Faculty leader Beverly Lapp and students from the summer 2006 Peru SST unit will tell us about that country and their experiences. Click for audio file
Three Goshen College students’ ‘This I Believe’ essays to be aired Feb. 20-March 6
The public radio station in Elkhart, Ind., WVPE-88.1 FM, has selected essays by three Goshen College students to air the Tuesdays between Feb. 20 and March 6 on its "This I Believe" program. All of the pieces will air at…
from the Campus Health & Wellness committee
Campus Health & Wellness committee presents a convocation on relationships and technology. Click for audio file
Winter One Acts 2007: A Collection of New Plays from the Peace Play Short List
A Collection of New Plays from the Peace Play Short List
Faculty faith story by physics professor Carl Helrich
Professor of Physics Carl Helrich was not raised in any church, yet at some point he encountered the God who speaks language in ways that he, and all of us, could understand. Come and hear more of Carl’s faith story....
President’s speech: “Wake-Up, Goshen”
By President James E. Brenneman at the Goshen Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Feb. 7, 2007
David Griffith, author of ‘A Good War is Hard to Find’
Griffith is a Catholic pacifist who lives in South Bend and teaches writing. His latest book is about the photographs of torture at the Abu Ghraib prison camp in Iraq: what they tell us and what effect they had. Click...
New housing approved to accommodate growth at Goshen College
Goshen College plans to begin the second phase of construction of a four-story apartment-style building later this year to accommodate growing student enrollment.
Enrollment and retention continue to increase at Goshen College
As the spring semester began, 934 students were enrolled in all programs at Goshen College compared with head counts of 870 for the spring semester in 2005-06 and in 2004-05, and 854 in 2003-04, according to Bill Born, vice president…
First-year international student calls for end to violence against women and wins annual college peace speech contest
Around the world, at least one in three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime, according to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Center for Health and Gender Equity.
The Making of ‘Fuerza,’ a documentary about Mexico-Goshen connections.
The students involved in the making of ‘Fuerza,’ a documentary about Mexico-Goshen connections, share stories from the production. Some of the narrative refers to video clips unavailable in this podcast. Soluz Films, the producers of the ‘Fuerza,’ have a website...
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