Beverly Lapp

Children and police officers among at least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Deadly attacks launched day before border crossing due to open as part of ceasefire deal

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise

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Learning that transforms Students engage questions of calling, purpose through final projects.

Each year, candidates for graduation from AMBS complete final projects and papers to fulfill the requirements of their master’s degree programs. We invited five recent graduates to share about how they chose their theme and how what they’ve learned is shaping them as leaders.https://loom.ly/geE0z5o

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

YouTube video by Interfaith Alliance Choose Love Not ICE

This. A thousand times this.

"His law is love and His gospel is peace."

From my friends @interfaithalliance.org. #LovenotICE

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Seminary “Trinity House” now available for retreat use A distinctive cloverleaf-shaped house on the edge of the AMBS campus is now available to the public for use as a daytime retreat space.

👀 Looking for a daytime retreat space?

☘️ "Trinity House," a distinctive cloverleaf-shaped house nestled among trees on the edge of the AMBS campus, has been renovated and is now available to the public!

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🤝 What does it mean to seek unity amid deep divisions?

Try out #seminary in the online course, 1 Corinthians: Transforming a Divided Church, with Gilha Lee, PhD.

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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

How to Challenge MAGA’s Biblical Authoritarianism Below is a guest essay from Drew Strait, an associate professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Indiana and author of Strange Worship.

Today’s issue of A Public Witness features a guest essay from @drewstrait.bsky.social centered on four creative proposals to disrupt Christian Nationalism within a distinctively Christian vernacular.

🌍 Explore the link between spirituality and our material bodies!

Try out seminary in the online course, Somatic Spiritual Practices, with Leah R. Thomas, PhD.

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This isn’t over yet. Spread the word.

Republicans' Big, Beautiful Bill would:

— Kick 16 million off their health care
— Close 1 out of 4 nursing homes
— Hike your energy bills
— Add at least $4 trillion to the national debt

It’s a gift to the rich and a disaster for families.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Emergency Feel-Better Kit A step-by-step guide to pulling out of a spiral...or just riding it straight to hell

This is really good, and maybe it will reach you at the right moment.

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

MC USA joins more than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations and associations sue to protect religious freedoms | Mennonite Church USA Reversal of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Sensitive Locations” Policy Interferes with Central Religious Beliefs, Violates both the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act en...

It is time to be the church and this will look like many things, including lawsuits. Mennonite Church USA et al vs. Department of Homeland Security et al.

This has been a very racist week

Ten Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy From Marc | The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy.

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

May you feel the joy of being done soon! Thinking of you today.

Take your lunch with AMBS! This lunchtime colloquium, Peace Theology in Movement, will explore the Mennonite Action movement as a living expression of Mennonite Peace theology.
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In ‘Dawn of the Nugget,’ No Chicken Is Free Until All Chickens Are Free After 23 years, ‘Chicken Run’ is back with a story pulled straight from Exodus.

"'Dawn of the Nugget' is more than just a movie with goofy, anthropomorphized chickens. It is a movie about collective liberation, perfectly suited for our fraught and hurting world," Greta Lapp Klassen writes.

You can get there from here Two of Dad’s early sculptures, with candles from Tony to remember them during this season. Mom died three years ago, a few days after Thanksgiving. Dad died two years ago today. Sometimes I d…

“Sometimes I drive like my father: smooth yet efficient, elegant yet slightly aggressive, ready to take advantage of better pathways…Sometimes I drive like my mother, with a frenetic energy, on high alert for danger, scattered.”

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Ah, here is the parody account I used to follow in the other place. It offers fake headlines inspired by maddening real headlines. I find it oddly soothing. bsky.app/profile/nytp...

I really need to find a piano partner to make it through the next four years. www.instagram.com/reel/DCkl2St...