The More Than Just Stories initiative made its podcasting debut last week with the release of the first episodes of “Just Stories” and “The Gratitude Letters.” Jen Shenk, the campus pastor, is the host of “The Gratitude Letters.” For the podcast, someone will write a letter to someone who means a lot to them, and the MTJS team will bring in both the writer of the letter and the recipient, and the letter will be read out loud, capturing everyone’s feelings. “It’s a beautiful conversation,” Shenk said, “and we just see where it goes from there.” Rob Brenneman and Regina...

By Adam Sherrill • October 8, 2026 • Features

This fall marks the end of the first full year for Goshen College’s Improv Club. Adam Sherrill, sophomore broadcasting major, and Korbin Hershberger, sophomore music education major, founded it in the fall of 2025. When starting the group, the two faced trouble gaining traction. Despite its status as a registered club, they mainly gained interest through word of mouth.  Starting this fall, the club is in full swing with new posters and meeting times — now meeting in Connector 3 on Fridays from 6-7:30 p.m. While the group has only met a few times this semester, Sherrill is already planning...

By Rose Snyder • October 8, 2026 • Features

Alicia Maldonado-Zahra is a scholar-activist fellow working for Goshen College and the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery. She teaches courses in the peace, justice and conflict studies department, and works with student protest groups to ensure their voices are heard. She also has gained a reputation within the college as having strong opinions on AI. Through Maldonado-Zahra’s work with the coalition, she has read through research on the environmental impacts of AI data centers. While the coalition is a Christian group, its practices are also rooted in Native American cosmology.  “Mennonites and Native Americans have a lot in...

By John Eash-Scott • October 1, 2026 • Features

In early August, a group of young adults started meeting, simply to share a meal and take part in  each other’s company. The only thing they had in common was their faith, and they quickly formed bonds and enjoyed their time together. This group is the Goshen Young Adult Mennonite Fellowship, a biweekly gathering that meets every other Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Their gatherings have no specific agenda or business, but are simply a space for young adults to find a community of like-minded people. Hannah Lehman ’24 is one of the founders of this fellowship group. She thinks it...

By Greta Miller • October 1, 2026 • Features

Downtown Goshen introduced a Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area on July 2. A DORA is a state-authorized district where those who are of legal drinking age, 21 and older, can take alcoholic beverages to-go from participating businesses, and drink them within the designated downtown zone.  The Goshen Common Council approved the creation of the DORA in May with official approval received from the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission in June.  One main feature of DORA is its cups. Once you decide you are ready to leave the participating restaurant, you can request a DORA-specific cup which allows you to take your...

By Mackenzie P. Miller • October 1, 2026 • Features Jory Umble • October 1, 2026 • Features

On May 15, Pope Leo XIV signed “Magnifica Humanitas,” or “Magnificent Humanity,” his first encyclical, focused on protecting human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. The Vatican released it on May 25.  In the 42,000-word document, the Pope asked: “Where are we going? Toward what goal do we wish to orient ourselves? What direction should we choose as people and as a human community?” Those questions are becoming more relevant as AI enters personal areas of life, including faith.  Sheri Hostetler, pastor at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco said, “It was becoming increasingly apparent that this technology was...

By Ana Alves Machado • October 1, 2026 • Features

The Be Boulder Run Club is one place where Goshen College graduates are building a sense of community. 13 runners congregated on Monday at Warehouse Climbing Co., including several GC students and alumni. At 6 p.m., the runners started gathering in the part of the gym that was not crowded with climbers, between stools shaped like puzzle pieces, a ping pong table and vintage picture frames. Their brightly colored running shoes matched the vibrant decor. It makes sense that this smiling group of runners meets in such a cheerful place. For Nathan Pauls ’21, these good spirits come from the...

By Peter Moser • September 17, 2026 • Features

Many colleges across America hold blood drives. Goshen College is no different, and on Tuesday, the first blood drive of the 2026-27 school year took place in the Mark Community Center. According to Patty Hartshorn, director for health and wellness at GC, this year was a little different from previous years. “Last year was the first year that we decided to coordinate a full calendar schedule,” she said. “We also have, starting this last year, a Red Cross Ambassador.” This new position will help on the logistical end of the blood drive, communicating directly with the Red Cross. The Red...

By Adam Sherrill • September 17, 2026 • Features

Imagine you are at the library working on a research paper that is due tomorrow. You type a few keywords into the library’s search bar, scroll through a list of results and after a few clicks, find exactly what you need. What you don’t necessarily see is everything that has to happen behind the scenes to make those results appear in the first place. For library staff, that process just passed through a transition. On Aug. 3 The Harold and Wilma Good Library at Goshen College changed library systems, switching their main search interface from WorldCat Discovery to Koha. The...

By Ana Alves Machado • September 17, 2026 • Features

As a kid, I was raised on a generous dose of rebels. Between “Star Wars,” “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hunger Games,” one of the things that I wanted most when I was younger was the chance to be a part of making history. To be a hero that stood up to injustice and fought the good fight even when it was hard.  I felt this same type of longing as I got older and started learning local history, like the Kent State shooting that took place only about an hour from my house.   Some of this is the...

By Kate Bodiker • January 29, 2026 • Features

For the first time in Record history, three Latina women have held semester-long executive positions. Our leadership is a reflection of the Goshen College student body today.  Concluding our time as editors, we wanted to share our reflections with you all — our triumphs, our hardships and mistakes. We only hope that you read carefully, with an open heart and mind.  Eliza Alemán:  Growing up with a mother who worked in the nonprofit sector, I learned how to engage with the public at a young age. My mother knew this was a slippery slope. While I learned to listen and...

By Eliza Alemán • December 4, 2025 • Features Aaliah Higareda • December 4, 2025 • Features Mafe Aguilar Vargas • December 4, 2025 • Features

Many Goshen College students, faculty and staff drive 50 minutes to Mishawaka to climb a wall. They are among the clients of the Apex Climbing Gym in Mishawaka, which is owned by Jeanne Liechty, the chair of the social work department at Goshen College, and her husband, Michael Dickens. The climbing gym, featuring multiple vertical climbing walls and over 7,000 feet of bouldering space, is available to anyone at any age. There’s also a strength training equipment area where people can endure a full workout or a small warmup for their next climb, along with merchandise and other accommodations. College...

By Andrew Jackson • December 4, 2025 • Features

Sitting on the third floor of Goshen College’s Harold and Wilma Good Library, the Mennonite Historical Library holds around 90,000 published resources covering Mennonite, Amish, Hutterite and other Anabaptist-related groups from the 16th century to the present.  Founded in 1906, the MHL is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections related to the Anabaptist tradition. Elizabeth Miller, director of the MHL and the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism and assistant professor of history, said, “A comprehensive collection means that we are not limiting our collecting to a certain time period or a certain branch of Anabaptism...

By Ana Alves Machado • December 4, 2025 • Features

The fall weather in Goshen has taken newcomers on a full spin with snowfall in early November, sunshine and low 60s by the end of the month and a return to the snowy weather. For many students who did not grow up with this type of weather, it has been shocking and exciting. Ines Villaseñor Rodríguez, a first-year molecular biology and biochemistry major from Spain, said the constant changes have been one of the biggest differences she has noticed since arriving on campus. “I prefer my weather in Spain, but the current temperature, 40 degrees, is good,” she said. “I...

By Yasmin Acosta • December 4, 2025 • Features

Alicia Maldonado-Zahra holds a position that isn’t familiar to many at Goshen College: scholar-activist, a role that fits her. “So my role is both faculty, so I work within the religion, justice and society department half-time,” she said. “And then the other half of my time is dedicated to student life: doing advocacy work, supporting students in their advocacy work, doing community building on campus, but also with the greater Goshen community.” She also works with The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, which is an Indigenous rights and advocacy network. Part of  Maldonado-Zahra’s vision for GC is making...

By Ana Alves Machado • November 20, 2025 • Features