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Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)11/5/2009  by Mike Mast 
Written by Mike Mast, retired pastor from Dalton, Ohio, November 5, 2009
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Public footpaths and dog-friendly pubs10/20/2009  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.
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Prayer for peace10/20/2009  by Hilary Scarsella 
This month's prayer was written by Hilary Scarsella, AMBS student and member of the Iraq Christian Peacemaker Team.
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Otterville10/20/2009  by Merrill R. Miller 
"Otterville" is copyrighted and is not to be reproduced in any form without permission. Contact Merrill Miller at
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Cartoons
Bleeding hearts can’t change the world10/20/2009  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.
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"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.
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Writings
Not far enough10/20/2009  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.
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A persistent faith10/20/2009  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.
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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)
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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)
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Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)10/1/2009  by Marian Hostetler 
Written by Marian Hostetler, October 1, 2009
(206K .PDF)
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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
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Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)9/17/2009  by James McGinnis 
Written by James McGinnis, September 17, 2009
(209K .PDF)
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When victims become healers9/15/2009  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.
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The International Day of Peace9/15/2009  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?
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Writings
Prayer based on the hymn 9/15/2009  by Joel Beachy 
This month's prayer was written by Joel Beachy.
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Prayers
Action alert: ACT for access9/15/2009  by Susan Mark Landis 
We provide suggestions for prayer, reflection and action on health care.
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Action Alerts
Action alert: Afghanistan9/15/2009  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.
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Action Alerts
Trusting God9/15/2009  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.
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Act for Peace in Uganda9/15/2009  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.
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Otterville9/15/2009  by Merrill R. Miller 
"Otterville" is copyrighted and is not to be reproduced in any form without permission. Contact Merrill Miller at
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Cartoons
Thriving takes time9/15/2009  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.
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Writings
Weekly prayer for peace   (PDF)9/10/2009  by Joel Beachy 
Written by Joel Beachy, September 10, 2009
(209K .PDF)
Prayers