Saturday, November 21, 2009

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‘Presente’ at the School of Americas Protest Vigil

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
‘Presente’ at the School of Americas Protest Vigil
“Presente”. This Spanish word took on new meaning after I attended last year’s School of the Americas protest in Fort Benning, Georgia.  As I marched along with thousands of others in solidarity to the solemn role call of victim after victim followed...

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Let the Games Begin

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Let the Games Begin
The current round of discussions surrounding the playing of the national anthem has taken on a renewed sense of urgency.  The prospect for change seems real this time, and I’m surprised how much I care about this issue.  It strikes close to the heart and soul of...

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Naming the Divine

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Naming the Divine
I woke up this morning, looked in the mirror, and I saw an image of God looking back at me. No, there was not an old white man peering over my shoulder as I brushed my teeth. I’m talking about my own reflection! God is a woman! And while I believe this to be true, I...

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Mennonites and Idolatry

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Mennonites and Idolatry
At the November 4 town hall meeting about the National Anthem, idolatry was mentioned several times.  If that’s why we don’t sing the anthem to the flag at games, Coach Wiktorowski asked why do we sing our campus anthem and fly Goshen College banners.  He has a point....

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Patriotism Fights Back

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Patriotism Fights Back
There was an article in last week’s paper about the National Anthem. It was stated that the Anthem “promotes and honors violence in our nation’s past…” NOWHERE in the Anthem does it condone violence. Francis Scott Key, the writer of “The Star...

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American Expression: Goshen College and the National Anthem

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
American Expression: Goshen College and the National Anthem
After listening to conversations during the last few weeks, I feel like there’s something missing in the National Anthem discussion.  I agree with those on campus who feel that we should abstain from playing the Anthem, but I have yet to hear many compelling reasons...

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Beyond Language and Conception

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Beyond Language and Conception
One of the prominent aspects of theological discussion around campus is gender-inclusive language regarding pronouns for God. I think this conversation evidences both a willingness to entertain new ideas as well as a deviation from Biblical truth. But my...

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On hazelnut, vanilla and mixed company

By Annalisa Harder • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
On hazelnut, vanilla and mixed company
I don’t like French-vanilla flavored coffee.  Coffee, as in robust, fresh, dark or lightly roasted, with milk—or just black, depending on the day—and no sugar is wonderful; of that I’m positive.  As for French-vanilla coffee, I’m confused.  I love the...

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Beyond the Bubble: A northern Ireland understanding

By Annalisa Harder • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Beyond the Bubble: A northern Ireland understanding
I spent this past summer in Northern Ireland with groups of primary-school-aged kids, slogging up mountain rivers, singing about a crazy juice-drinking moose, and expelling invasive zombies from the YMCA where I was volunteering. Aside from giving kids a really fun...

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My thoughts on Goshen

By Annalisa Harder • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: perspectives
My thoughts on Goshen
Before arriving at Goshen, I had several ideas about what college life was going to be like.  I envisioned myself with lots of free time, sleeping in late every day, going to activities all the time, and not having too much homework.  I was kind of wrong. Not only...

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Taking responsibility from the bottom up

By Annalisa Harder • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Taking responsibility from the bottom up
When I heard Bill McKibben speak last year about 350.org and the impending effects of climate change, I was struck by the urgency of our situation and wanted to do something to help. The more I read, the more I realized that indeed, climate change is the cause...

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Debunking the red scare

By Annalisa Harder • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Debunking the red scare
So, as hard as this might be for you to accept, redheads are people too. We eat, sleep and live just like "normal people." We experience joy and sorrow just like you do, and we make mistakes just like you, too. I write this perspective in the hopes that I can correct...

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Walking with a brother

By Annalisa Harder • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Walking with a brother
By Tim Blaum Last weekend I had the privilege of hanging out with a new friend whom I had met earlier this summer for the first time. I knew Brian and I had a lot in common, and we spent a lot of time talking. Unfortunately, he had to return to his home city down in...

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Oh Goodness, it’s Gloucestershire!

By Annalisa Harder • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Oh Goodness, it’s Gloucestershire!
Last summer I realized that I didn’t want to do SST. I wanted to travel; I just wanted to do so on my own. I wanted to push myself out of the comfort zone that I have at Goshen, and I suspected that going on SST with my friends wouldn’t fulfill that desire for me....

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I signed us up for basketball

By Annalisa Harder • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
I signed us up for basketball
“I signed us up for intramural basketball!” exclaimed Joe. Joe McCullough was a 280-pound top-heavy Irish buddy of mine. I say top-heavy because while his legs were those of a thin 12 year old girl, you couldn’t have stuffed his torso into a 50 gallon drum. He had...

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