This summer, two students created a Peruvian cookbook, “Los Sabores del Peru,” to sell for charity. Gretchen Geyer, a senior studying social work and business, went to Peru for Study Service Term (SST) in the spring of 2014. During the Service portion of her time, she lived in Ayacucho, where she worked to prepare food at the comedor, a free soup kitchen hosted by the church Luz Y Vida. There, she and two other chefs worked, “essentially making food for 50 to 60 little children from the ages of 3 to 14,” said Geyer. For Geyer’s final project, she studied differences between food preparation in...

By Mia Engle • September 10, 2014 • News

The last two years have been big ones for Goshen College-based publications. GC faculty members Steve Nolt, Duane Stoltzfus, Bob Yoder and Keith Graber-Miller have written or co-written books on Mennonite/Anabaptist history. Yoder, Nolt and Stoltzfus published theirs this year, while Graber-Miller published his in 2012. “The Amish and Mennonites are becoming more interesting to the public,” said Nolt. With a growing audience also comes a growth in the surrounding published work. The Amish is co-written by Steve Nolt, Donald B. Kraybill, professor at Elizabethtown College and Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, linguist and professor at New York State University. The book...

By Kolton Nay • November 22, 2013 • Arts

“I became curious about the rosy child and blushing girl I used to be. I wanted to see and hear her again, from a loving and unblushing distance, with new eyes and ears.” These are some of the first lines from Shirley Showalter’s newly published memoir, Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World. Showalter, who served as Goshen College’s 14th president, will return to campus this weekend to share her book with a familiar community. “It’s always kind of a mystery how a new audience will respond to my book,” said Showalter. “The question is, how are all of...

By Kate Stoltzfus • October 6, 2013 • Features

Three Goshen College English majors have written, published, and as of last night’s Pinchpenny Press gathering, released their work to the public. In a dimly lit and casually elegant Newcomer 19, the release party gave student writers a chance to display the literary efforts that they have been working on since the fall. Pinchpenny Press, a campus enterprise, seeks to introduce student writers to the publication process through organizing a structured yet realistic simulation of how an author’s idea becomes a producible written work. Headed by a faculty board of students, staff, and community members, Pinchpenny Press normally assists with...

By Liz Core • April 13, 2011 • Arts

  J.R. Burkholder had aspirations of joining the U.S. Air force when he was in high school, even making a painting that depicted an airplane dropping bombs and shooting another plane.  Somewhere in the 65 years between his high school days and now, his mindset shifted from a militaristic viewpoint to a focus on peace.  On Tuesday, Sept. 14, the retired Bible and Religion professor published “Prophetic Peacemaking,” a collection of essays on faithful living. Through his essays, dating from 1956 to 2004, Burkholder tackles the question of what it's like trying to be a faithful Christian in the 20th...

By Alysha Landis • September 15, 2010 • News

A third of the “Mennonite trinity” was remembered on Tuesday as Theron Schlabach released his book, “War, Peace and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics.” Schlabach, a 1960 Goshen College graduate, did not take classes with Hershberger, a professor at Goshen, until the late 1950s, but he worked as Hershberger's assistant in the history department for one semester. “He really is one of the important figures of that Goshen school age when Harold Bender—well, we used to call them the holy Mennonite trinity,” Schlabach said, explaining how Harold S. Bender’s initials earned him the nickname of "Holy Spirit,”...

By Marlys Weaver • January 20, 2010 • News

Using words, photos, drawings and cartoons, students presented bits of themselves to the public in two recently released Pinchpenny Press publications. The book “Goshen Adventure Comics,” was released at Better World Books downtown on Friday. The comic book was edited by Jessica Baldanzi, assistant professor of English; Jacob Schlabach, a sophomore; and Emily Taylor, a junior. “Red Cents,” Goshen’s creative arts journal, was released on Tuesday at Goshen College. The arts journal was edited by Whitney Philipps, a senior, and Chase Snyder, a junior, who also designed the cover. “Goshen Adventure Comics” is an anthology of a handful of final...

By Alysha Landis • April 8, 2009 • Arts

Recent world history will soon be coming into clearer focus for Goshen College students when Sheldon Good, a senior, releases his Pinchpenny Press book, “Surviving the Khmer Rouge: Stories on the Struggle to Stay Alive,” this weekend. Accounts of the impending tribunals and sentencing for Khmer Rouge leaders of the genocide in Cambodia in the late 1970s made world news headlines at CNN on Monday. Good’s edited volume tells the stories of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Most stories in the book are gathered from host parents of Goshen College students from the spring 2007 Cambodia...

By Ben Noll • April 1, 2009 • Arts

Although e-mail and cell phones have long since replaced handwritten letters to parents of college students in faraway places, Peter Miller, a senior, uses the concept as inspiration for his new collection of poetry to explore his changing relationship to home while at Goshen College. Miller, an English and music double major, will release his collection “Writing Home,” on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Koinonia Room in the Church-Chapel. “The title of the collection … is a play on words,” Miller said. “Apart from the obvious meaning of communicating over a distance, it also means something like ‘contemplating home’...

By Ben Noll • March 4, 2009 • Arts