“Proving God’s Will” will be Justin Romine’s topic for a Nov. 12 forum during Spiritual Life Week at Bluffton University. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.
Romine, from Keystone, S.D., is summer internship director for the Keystone Project, a discipleship-training and global missions network. His Bluffton talk will examine the conflict between being conformed to the world and being transformed by the renewing of the mind, as developed in Romans 12:1-2.
Dr. Martina Cucchiara, an assistant professor of history at Bluffton University, will explore the diary of a Jewish German in Nazi Germany during a campus colloquium Nov. 8.
Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall will be the site of the 4 p.m. presentation, which is titled “‘I am suffocating on the evil that engulfs me’: The Diary of Erna Becker-Kohen, 1937-1963.” The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, director of the Bluffton University Gospel Choir, directs the choir and Hesston (Kan.) College’s Bel Canto Singers and Chorale in a combined performance during “A Celebration of Gospel: Music and Worship in the African-American Tradition” Oct. 27 at Hesston Mennonite Church.
The concert featured each individual choir as well as the combined choir with guest composer, arranger and gospel historian Dr. Raymond Wise of Columbus, Ohio.
Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s second great-granddaughter was born this morning (Oct. 29). Two months ago, she and her husband, Nathaniel, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. And her mother lived to age 104, dying just last December, six weeks shy of her 105th birthday.
Lazan happily related those milestones Tuesday at Bluffton University. But none of them would have been possible without a nearly 70-year-old triumph of “perseverance, determination, faith and, above all, hope,” she said in a filled Founders Hall on campus.
Guy Jones (center) speaks to faculty and students following his Oct. 22 presentation, “Who Said I’m an Indian?” at Bluffton University.
Co-founder of the Dayton, Ohio-based Miami Valley Council for Native Americans, Jones addressed stereotypical labels applied to native cultures, citing the Washington Redskins football team as an example.
“There is no honor in that name,” said Jones, a Hunkpapa Lakota. “We have been lost in translation.” He also discussed economic and educational issues for Native Americans.
Ongoing debate in the divided Old German Baptist Brethren Church illustrates difficulties that the conservative Anabaptist group continues to face in its efforts to restrict Internet use, says a Bluffton University professor who has studied the church.
The Brethren ruled against use of the Internet at their 1996 Annual Meeting to maintain “separation from, and nonconformity to, the world,” according to meeting minutes cited by Dr. Gerald Mast, a professor of communication, at an Oct. 18 campus colloquium.
