podcast
October 24, 2024
New sports podcast gets a running start
On the Goshen College campus, there are quite a few podcasts: the Goshen College podcast, which is centered around GC’s convos and chapels, the “Just Plain Wrong” podcast, which focuses on religious fictional works, and a few more to boot. However, another podcast on campus launched not too long ago. The Maple Mile podcast, which has been in talks for awhile, has finally broken into the scene. The Maple Mile is a podcast managed by Max Estep, a first-year engineering physics major. Its co-hosts are Jesse Bontrager, a first-year exercise science major, and Isaiah Beiter, a junior social work major. ...
March 23, 2023
Librarians co-host podcast on Amish life
Just over two years ago, Goshen College librarians Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Tillie Yoder started their first podcast, “Just Plain Wrong.” In it, the three discuss different areas of Amish culture and depictions of Amish and Mennonite life in the media. Although they first began discussing strictly Amish romance novels, they have recently found more enriching areas including the presentation of Amish and Mennonites in movies, novels, comics and nonfiction stories, as well as research on Amish life. One of their more recent episodes featured Dirk Eitzen, the author of “Fooling With the Amish: Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and...
October 28, 2022
Malcolm Gladwell explores Mennonite history in podcast
Duane Stoltzfus, chair of the communication department, received an email on Feb. 7 with the subject line, “question from a journalist.” It was from Malcolm Gladwell, renowned journalist and podcast host of “Revisionist History,” which Gladwell describes as “things overlooked and misunderstood.” He was planning a series of episodes about the Minnesota Starvation Experiments. In the early 1940s, conscientious objectors were faced with a dilemma. By definition and principle, they could not morally justify going to war. But the war was precisely where their country was headed. “By World War II,” Stoltzfus said, “We had the Quakers, Brethren and Mennonites...