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Title	Date	Author Category
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	11/5/2009	by Mike Mast
Written by Mike Mast, retired pastor from Dalton, Ohio, November 5, 2009 (205K .PDF)		Prayers
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	10/29/2009	by Malinda Berry
Written by Malinda Berry, Instructor of Theological Studies & M.A. Program Director at Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, IN, October 29, 2009 (207K .PDF)		Prayers
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	10/22/2009	by Marie Snavely
Written by Marie Snavely a member of Blossom Hill Mennonite Church, October 22, 2009 (205K .PDF)		Prayers
Review of 'A Persistent Voice: Marian Franz and Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation'	10/20/2009	by Muriel T. Stackley
In today's mail is the October, 2009 issue of More than a paycheck: News from the War Tax Resistance Movement--evidence that the movement led so well by Marian Franz for 23 years is alive and well.		Writings
Review of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"	10/20/2009	by Wayne Nitzsche
On September 17, Perkasie Mennonite Church joined with others in Seoul, Korea, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Ottawa, Ontario, inviting people from our community to view the powerful documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell.		Writings
Public footpaths and dog-friendly pubs	10/20/2009	by Tom Beutel
My wife and I recently returned from a long-anticipated trip to England. The trip, a dream of ours for many years, was a celebration of our 30th wedding anniversary and my recent early retirement from university teaching. As a sabbath from our busy lives it could not have been better. As a chance to see a different, beautiful, and historic land and meet some of its people, it surpassed our expectations.		Writings
Prayer for peace	10/20/2009	by Hilary Scarsella
This month's prayer was written by Hilary Scarsella, AMBS student and member of the Iraq Christian Peacemaker Team.		Prayers
Otterville	10/20/2009	by Merrill R. Miller
"Otterville" is copyrighted and is not to be reproduced in any form without permission. Contact Merrill Miller at		Cartoons
Bleeding hearts can’t change the world	10/20/2009	by Susan Mark Landis
No question, I'm a bleeding heart. I feel hugely guilty about how good and easy my life is on a global scale.		Writings
"Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry?"	10/20/2009	by Brother James Dowd
Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are well into the season of autumn, and along with the beautiful leaves and the crisp weather comes the harvest. In much of North America, we are blessed with a bountiful harvest each fall which feeds most of our people and some people in other lands as well. Our Canadian brothers and sisters have already celebrated their Thanksgiving and here in the States, ours is still more than a month away. But all of us have much to be grateful for, not the least of which is the fact that we rarely, if ever, have to worry about having enough food on our tables.		Writings
Not far enough	10/20/2009	by Tammy Alexander
The healing story in Matthew describes a woman who had suffered from hemorrhages for twelve years. Aside from her physical suffering, the woman was also likely a pariah in society, an outcast, unable to marry or have a family or be a part of community life.		Writings
A persistent faith	10/20/2009	by Max Ediger
Mrs. Hai Khanjanta is a grandmother with a message for us. She does not share her message through words, but rather through her example. Grandma Hai, as her neighbors call her, is an eighty-year-old farmer from the northeast region of Thailand. She has raised ten children and now proudly boasts of having 54 grandchildren.		Writings
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	10/15/2009	by Hilary Scarsella
Written by Hilary Scarsella, AMBS student and member of the Iraq Christian Peacemaker Team, October 15, 2009 (208K .PDF)		Prayers
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	10/8/2009	by Larry Egly
Written by Larry Egly. Larry works in a special education classroom and belongs to Veterans for Peace. He attends Hope Fellowship, a Mennonite congregation in Waco, Texas., October 8, 2009 (206K .PDF)		Prayers
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	10/1/2009	by Marian Hostetler
Written by Marian Hostetler, October 1, 2009 (206K .PDF)		Prayers
Weekly Prayer For Peace	9/30/2009
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Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	9/24/2009	by Weldon Nisly
Written by Weldon Nisly, pastor of Seattle Mennonite Church, September 24, 2009 (209K .PDF)		Prayers
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	9/17/2009	by James McGinnis
Written by James McGinnis, September 17, 2009 (209K .PDF)		Prayers
When victims become healers	9/15/2009	by Max Ediger
Part 5 of a 5-part series on Agent Orange.On August 10, 1961 U.S. forces started their toxic chemical spraying in Viet Nam. Forests and crop fields were left bare and desolate by herbicides with such colorful names as Agent Orange, Agent Purple, Agent Blue and Agent White. Almost 50 years later the land is producing again. Fields of rice wave in the afternoon breezes and hillsides are again covered with trees giving cover to animals and insects that for so many years had no place to forage for food. It is easy to forget that, within the beauty of nature regaining its presence in Quang Ngai Province, the poisons remain. Some streams with crystal-clear water support no fish and many fields of rice are thin and yellowish in color. Most sadly, children continue to be born with severe mental and physical disabilities. For those of us living half-a-world away it may be easy to pick up a good book or turn on a television show and pretend that the war in Viet Nam never happened, but for the people of Viet Nam, the reminders of those tragic years of unnecessary violence are always in front of them, not just in their memories but in the lives of the many people suffering the effects of unexploded ordnance and herbicide poisons.		Writings
The International Day of Peace	9/15/2009	by Brother James Dowd
Since the early 1980's, the United Nations has proclaimed September 21st as the International Day of Peace, and throughout the world various vigils, commemorations, rallies, festivals and other ways to mark the day have been held on or about that date. And so, once again, we find ourselves preparing for another Day of Peace with hope and expectation. Or do we?		Writings
Prayer based on the hymn	9/15/2009	by Joel Beachy
This month's prayer was written by Joel Beachy.		Prayers
Action alert: ACT for access	9/15/2009	by Susan Mark Landis
We provide suggestions for prayer, reflection and action on health care.		Action Alerts
Action alert: Afghanistan	9/15/2009	by Staff
Congress, the Obama Administration and the military are considering significantly increasing U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan. But we believe that troops do not bring security or peace.		Action Alerts
Trusting God	9/15/2009	by Tom Beutel
Within the context of shalom--peace which permeates all of life and which is centered in well-being and right relationships--it is common to focus on nonviolence. There seem to be two somewhat mutually exclusive strains within this focus on nonviolence: nonresistance and nonviolent resistance. John Howard Yoder, Walter Wink and others have convincingly argued the point of view that Jesus does not necessarily advocate nonresistance since he himself resists evil as in the cleansing of the temple and in his heated arguments with religious leaders. The model, they would argue, is one of nonviolent resistance, not one of nonresistance.		Writings
Act for Peace in Uganda	9/15/2009	by Mary Stata
For the past two decades the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group has threatened communities in northern Uganda and across central Africa by brutally targeting civilians and abducting thousands of children. Even though the LRA is small in numbers (less than 1.500 members), their ruthless attacks have wreaked havoc on the region and caused massive internal displacement of civilians.		Writings
Otterville	9/15/2009	by Merrill R. Miller
"Otterville" is copyrighted and is not to be reproduced in any form without permission. Contact Merrill Miller at		Cartoons
Thriving takes time	9/15/2009	by Susan Mark Landis
A friend in his mid-20's made time to help us in the garden last week. My perennial bed perennially suffers from lack of attention. He dug up the Japanese anemone too close to the front that unexpectedly hid from view the Canterbury bells and Jacob's ladder. We divided the huge healthy plant so I could share with friends and then planted it further back. The hollyhocks and hibiscus now also seemed out of place and he put his back into digging them. While he cut down corn stalks, I transplanted shorter plants--campanulas and petite foxgloves--to the front. I even got an out-of-place purple cornflower and some yarrow back where they belonged. What an amazing hour! Although the ornamental grasses still so overshadowed the spigot that watering the plants meant scraped-up arms, I was more than satisfied.		Writings
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)	9/10/2009	by Joel Beachy
Written by Joel Beachy, September 10, 2009 (209K .PDF)		Prayers