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October 26th, 2020
COVID put a stop to Sarah Smarsh delivering the KIPCOR Peace Lecture in person – but has opened it up, literally, to the world. KIPCOR is the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Bethel College. The endowed Peace Lecture series was to have featured Kansas-based writer Smarsh last May, postponed until September and finally moved… Read More
October 20th, 2020
The first leader of a worldwide Mennonite confederation to hail from the global South will give this year’s Menno Simons Lectures, Sunday and Monday, Oct. 25-26. And for the first time in the almost 70-year history of the lecture series, it will take place entirely online. Speaker César García, a native of Colombia now living in Canada, became… Read More
October 7th, 2020
Students still shared in one important annual tradition: Service Day, which took place Sept. 23. Classes were canceled so students could spend several hours serving on campus and in the nearby community. “Service Day is a physical expression of how Bethel College values an ethic of service,” said Michael Unruh, campus pastor. Service Day saw… Read More
October 1st, 2020
You can still watch the Fall Festival theater production, No Cross, No Crown – Covid Edition, on Bethel's YouTube channel. It should surprise no one to learn that the Fall Fest play needed to move from live stage to online. While many events had to be be canceled, a few were able to go on, just virtually. One such was No Cross, No Crown – Covid… Read More
September 30th, 2020
This is the final week to see “Forthcoming,” which closes Friday, Oct. 30, in the gallery in Luyken Fine Arts Center. David Long is professor of visual arts and design at Bethel. The reception for the exhibit was one of the few Fall Festival events that could go on in person, on Oct. 2. “Images for this exhibit were… Read More
September 24th, 2020
Bethel is located in the top 25 for LendEDU’s ranking of safest college towns in the country. North Newton, Kan., is #23 out of 325 towns and cities that LendEDU, an online organization that works “to help students and families make educated decisions when it comes to higher education,” examined for its safety rankings. LendEDU notes that… Read More