Goshen Commons

05/04/2023

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05/16/2014

Goshen Commons shifts to rest mode as the site's faculty director prepares for a year in Peru. But several of the bloggers will post on at etruth.com.

After nearly two years of providing news, features and blog postings, Goshen Commons will suspend publication, effective at the end of May. The Communication Department…

05/15/2014

The Write on Sports camp returns to Goshen in July.

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05/15/2014

Jessica Baldanzi introduces a travel-adventure love story that explores myth and violence in human history.

Images from npr.org. “Readers! This book is not a real encyclopedia!” warns the back cover of Isabel Greenberg’s “Encyclopedia of Early Earth.” The back of…

05/12/2014

In her final post for Goshen Commons, Patricia Oakley writes about closing out a year at Clay Bottom Farm and preparing for the next chapter.

Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow All it takes is a rake and a hoe And a piece of fertile…

05/07/2014

Becca Briscoe says farewell to friends and Goshen Commons -- and announces her new blog at The Elkhart Truth.

Change is inevitable...embracing it is optional. Were it not for change, I would still be wearing a faded green, one-size-fits-all gym suit three times a…

05/06/2014

In her final post for Goshen Commons, Anne Berry reflects on color and language and ancestry and "beauty in the world."

I suppose it’s fitting that within the same week that I caught up with the Cliven Bundy story, I also got around to watching

04/28/2014

A student's research paper prompts Clubhouse colleagues to reflect on stigma and mental illness and more.

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04/28/2014

John Yoder is back on the road, having run through the spring checklist.

Several weeks ago, when it finally warmed up enough to entice me outside for a bike ride, I had my annual shakedown ride -- that…

04/28/2014

Elise Hofer Derstine recalls the day when 280 baby chicks arrived in the mail.

This morning I rode my bike down to the farm where we are raising 280 baby chicks. I fed them, watered them, refreshed their bedding…

04/23/2014

Isaac Fast reports on the vision of a new Goshen organization, the Latin American Cultural and Language Center.

Their surveys said they wanted to sing in a community choir, learn Spanish and English, and teach guitar lessons. On a recent evening at the…

04/21/2014

Anne Berry tells about decorating eggs in the challenging Ukrainian Pysanka tradition -- and the inevitability of "happy accidents."

About once a month, I get together with five other women to talk about and share examples of creative work we’re currently involved in—from writing…