President’s chapel sermon: “God and Ted Talk About Science: Ideas Worth Spreading”
Chapel sermon, delivered by Dr. James E. Brenneman, president of Goshen College on Friday, March 14, 2014 in the Goshen College Church-Chapel
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What matters most: Sowing compassion
"As a college whose peacemaking roots run deep, naming one of our core values “peacemaking” seems obvious to me..."
Expanding the sound pool: Celebrating Professor Emerita of Music Mary Oyer’s 90th birthday
"Mary Oyer’s passionate quest and openness to expanding the musical canon, the 'sound pool,' of the Mennonite church and of Goshen College to be more than mere perfect imitation will prove to be, in my estimation, one of her greatest legacies."
President Brenneman welcomes students with call to be compassionate peacemakers
Goshen College President James E. Brenneman opened the 2013-14 school year with an invitation to the campus to recommit themselves to being compassionate peacemakers.
President’s speech: “Sowing Compassion! On Becoming Compassionate Peacemakers”
Each year Goshen College spends an entire year focused on one of the five core values that lie at the heart and soul of our community life. . . becoming Christ-centered, passionate learners, compassionate peacemakers, servant leaders, and global citizens. Today, we begin a year-long workout about the meaning, the significance, and the consequences of living out the core value of “compassionate peacemaking.”
President’s sermon: “Love in the Clouds of Unknowing”
“You have held newborns in Nicaragua, taught English in Cambodia, served the deaf community in Peru, held basketball camps down the street. You have learned to live lives of service and learning on every inhabitable continent on earth. By my estimation, in the four years you were here at Goshen College, all students, along with faculty, staff, and administrators, showed God’s love for others with more than 60,000 service hours per year that you were here. You, my dear students, have embodied a ‘love that surpasses knowledge.’”
“Goshen College president grateful for leadership role” in the Goshen News
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What matters most: the birds and the bees and passionate…learning
As a boy growing up in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, Merle E. Jacobs ’48 loved all birds but was obsessed with yellow canaries. From a pair, he eventually developed a flock of 67 canaries – all happily living inside his family’s home. Fifty years later, I had the privilege…
Goshen College president commits to a ‘climate neutral’ campus
Goshen College plans to sharply reduce and eventually eliminate all of the college’s global warming emissions and is supporting more research and educational efforts to help stabilize the earth’s climate. President James E. Brenneman made that pledge on behalf of Goshen College by becoming a charter signatory to the American…