Saturday, November 07, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘convocation’

Speaking from Experience…

Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: perspectives

Convocation and chapel at Goshen College are part of what makes this place unique. Many schools have required chapel or forum or assembly. Many colleges don't have a system quite like ours. Why do we have convocation and chapel? What is working well? What could we do...

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Speaking from Experience…

Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: perspectives
Speaking from Experience…
When I was young, I was not materialistic – at least not by my own society's standards. Every time I moved, I divested myself of possessions so that I could mail what I owned to myself. Several factors protected me from accumulating belongings. I liked working at...

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Warming up our climate responsibility

Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: perspectives

Last week, Bob Yoder talked about global climate change in convocation. He did an excellent job, but the situation is scarier than he said. Ice core records going back 800,000 years show that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels stayed below 300 parts per million until...

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Goshen challenged to become more interculturally competent

By Annalisa Harder • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: news

The Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil presented 10 ways people can become more interculturally competent in her extended chapel on Wednesday. McNeil, a leader in the field of racial and ethnic reconciliation, used the story of Jesus at the well as a model in her speech “A...

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