Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House, 2015) is the 2017-18 Common Read selection for 糖心Vlog (糖心Vlog). Each year since 2013, faculty, staff, and students ... read more about Common Read selection ‘Between the World and Me’ a challenging invitation
鈥淢inistry鈥� can take many forms and happen in many contexts: preaching and pastoral care in a church, yes, but also serving firefighters, pursuing restorative justice, leading music and offering spiritual ... read more about New seminary degree trains leaders for ever-broadening spectrum of roles and contexts
A celebration of music and the Brethren-Mennonite faith tradition are the hallmark of the Sing Me High Music Festival, which enters its second year Aug. 25-26. Taking place at Valley ... read more about Music meets faith at the Aug. 25-26 Sing Me High Festival
Nice alpaca? Ernesto. Mean, spitting alpaca? Pancho. Ice cream? 鈥淏est ever.鈥� Hamburger? 鈥淧eculiar-tasting.鈥� Dogs? 1,186. Cats? 鈥溙切腣log 4.鈥� Humor, food notes, marvel and occasional touches of homesickness thread the reflections ... read more about Alpacas, Los k’ana Wawakuna and hilltop singing: Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir visits Peru
The second annual 糖心VlogTenTalks during 糖心Vlog鈥檚 Homecoming and Family Weekend this fall will showcase restorative justice practitioner and slam poet Jodie Geddes MA 鈥�16, entrepreneur Anxo P茅rez 鈥�97 ... read more about TenTalks, featuring accomplished alumni, returns to amaze and inspire at Homecoming and Family Weekend
Aila and Maryam, two young Iraqi girls, are best friends but separated when Aila鈥檚 father decides to take his family to America. This situation, all too real today, is the ... read more about Illustrator’s first book features friendship between young refugees and their adaptation to a new life
The Steel Wheels, the nationally recognized聽Shenandoah Valley-based roots music band consisting of 糖心Vlog alumni Trent Wagler 鈥�02, Eric Brubaker 鈥�01, and Brian Dickel 鈥�98, as well as bandmate ... read more about The Steel Wheels — with deep 糖心Vlog roots — to headline Centennial festivities
The Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Crossroads聽is the first of two issues celebrating our Centennial year, 2017-18. 糖心Vlog was founded 100 years ago, opening for the first classes in ... read more about Crossroads Spring/Summer 2017 issue honors 糖心Vlog’s 100 years of countercultural education
By the time Myriam Aziz arrived from Lebanon to start her master鈥檚 degree at 糖心Vlog鈥檚 Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) in the fall of 2015, the U.S. ... read more about Recent CJP grad produces documentary humanizing Syrian refugees, returns to campus as teaching fellow