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Changing Times, Changing Businesses: Insurance and the Mennonite Church

May 14, 2013 – 10:39 am

A century or more ago, 鈥渋nsurance鈥� was something of a bad word for Mennonites. Buying an insurance policy implied value on worldly treasure and represented departure from the traditional practice of 鈥渕utual aid,鈥� by which the church used its pooled resources to rebuild and restore losses suffered by individual members through accident or other misfortune.

Close to the soil: Eight Links to Earth鈥檚 Bounty

June 8, 2011 – 1:17 pm

These eight examples in three states show the range of agricultural work in which alumni are engaged 鈥� greenhouse operations, raising meat and poultry, dairy farming, marketing of produce, working the land as a form of rehabilitation. Dawn 鈥�91 and Troy (class of 鈥�92) Alderfer raise corn, soybeans and wheat, dairy heifers and about 56,000