Links to articles shared on Marginal Mennonite Societys Facebook page (2011-2013)

Amish When Do Amish Get Baptized? By Erik Wesner, posted on the Amish America website. http://amishamerica.com/when-do-amish-get-baptized/ Do Amish Vote? By Erik Wesner, posted on the Amish America website. http://amishamerica.com/do-amish-vote/ Do Amish Use Guns? By Erik Wesner, posted on the Amish America website. http://amishamerica.com/do-amish-use-guns/ Are Swartzentruber Amish Saved? By Erik Wesner, posted on the Amish America website on January 5, 2011. http://amishamerica.com/are-swartzentruber-amish-saved/ Do Amish Evangelize? By Erik Wesner, posted on the Amish America website on October 20, 2011. http://amishamerica.com/do-amish-evangelize/ Amish Report Staggering Growth in Midwest. By Brandon Blackwell, posted on Religion News Service website on August 6, 2012. http://archives.religionnews.com/faith/clergy-and-congregations/amish-report-staggering-growth-in-midwest Amish Growth Enriches All Of Us. By John D. Roth, posted on The Mennonite website on November 1, 2012. http://www.themennonite.org/issues/15-11/articles/Amish_growth_enriches_all_of_us For Amish, Fastest-Growing Faith Group in U.S., Life Is Changing. By Mark Guarino, posted on Christian Science Monitor website on November 30, 2012. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/1130/For-Amish-fastest-growing-faith-group-in-US-life-is-changing Parents of Victims of Nickel Mines School-house Shootings Grieve for Bereaved Parents in Newtown. By Cindy Stauffer and Ad Crable, posted on Lancaster Online on December 17, 2012. http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/794070_Parents-of-victims-of-Nickel-Mines-schoolhouse-shootings-grievefor-bereaved-parents-in-Newtown.html

Archaeology B&B owner finds stuffed cat hidden in his attic is a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. By Steve Robson, posted on the Daily Mail website on February 14, 2013. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278585/B-B-owner-finds-stuffed-cat-hidden-attic-2-000-year-oldEGYPTIAN-MUMMY.html Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee. By Owen Jarus, posted on LiveScience website on April 9, 2013. http://www.livescience.com/28567-ancient-structure-under-sea-of-galilee.html The Hangmans Tale: Archaeologists Dig Into History of Execution. By Matthias Schulz, posted on Spiegel Online on April 12, 2013. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/germany-sees-rising-interest-in-execution-site-archaeology-a893747.html

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Bible Study The New Commandments. By Christopher Hitchens, posted on Vanity Fair website, April 2010. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/04/hitchens-201004 Why We Must Reclaim the Bible from Fundamentalists. By John Shelby Spong, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on October 13, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-shelby-spong/why-i-wrote-re-claiming-t_b_1007399.html The Author of a Major N.T. Epistle Was A Woman. By Ron Goetz, posted on his blog Bible-Thumping Liberal on August 27, 2012. http://biblethumpingliberal.com/2012/08/27/the-author-of-a-major-n-t-epistle-was-a-woman/

Buddhism The Man From New Jersey (Buddhism was waning in British Sri Lanka; then Henry Steel Olcott came along). By Stefany Anne Golberg, posted on The Smart Set (Drexel University) website, in 2012. http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03121201.aspx

Car-Free Culture Five ways Amish get from point A to point B without a car (or buggy). By Erik Wesner, posted on the Amish America website on January 18, 2011. http://amishamerica.com/5-ways-amish-get-from-point-a-to-point-b-without-a-car-or-buggy/ The Amish Buggy: All About Plain Transportation. By Erik Wesner, posted on the Amish America website on September 2, 2011. http://amishamerica.com/amish-buggy/ Driving Has Lost Its Cool for Young Americans. By Lisa Hymas, posted on the Grist website on December 27, 2011. http://grist.org/transportation/2011-12-27-driving-has-lost-its-cool-for-young-americans/

Coming Out The Amazing Story of the Televangelist and His Gay Grandson. By Jonathan Miles, posted on Details.com, February 2012. http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201202/preacher-oral-roberts-grandson-randy-roberts-potts-thegay-agenda

Counter-Culture Deadhead: The Afterlife. By Nick Paumgarten, posted on The New Yorker website on November 26, 2012. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten

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Gratitude The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier. By Ocean Robbins, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on November 4, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ocean-robbins/having-gratitude-_b_1073105.html

Higher Power My Name is Roger, and Im An Alcoholic. By Roger Ebert, posted on Roger Eberts Journal on August 25, 2009. http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/my-name-is-roger-and-im-an-alcoholic

Humor Are Your Cats Old Enough to Learn About Jesus? By Marian Byers, posted on The Onion website on February 28, 2006. http://www.theonion.com/articles/are-your-cats-old-enough-to-learn-about-jesus,11206/ Your Imaginary Boyfriend: Jesus Christ. By Madeleine Davies, posted on the Jezebel website (Home of Shiny Happy Ladies) on December 20, 2012. http://jezebel.com/5969978/your-imaginary-boyfriend-jesus-christ God Freaks Self Out By Lying Awake Contemplating Own Immortality. Posted on The Onion website on January 31, 2013. http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-freaks-self-out-by-lying-awake-contemplating-o,31097/

Interfaith Dialogue Did the Dalai Lama Just Call For An End To Religion? By Richard Schiffman, posted on the Religion Dispatches website on November 29, 2012. http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/6647/did_the_dalai_lama_just_call_for_an_end_to_religion/ Do All Religions Teach the Same Truth? By Richard Schiffman, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on December 4, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-schiffman/do-all-religions-teach-the-same-truth_b_2217161.html Celebrating Swami Vivekenandas 150th. By Philip Goldberg, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on January 12, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/celebrating-swami-vivekananda-150th-birthday_b_2425529.html

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Losing Belief The Sound of Sin: How one little Panasonic radio tore apart my marriage -- and my Jewish faith. By Shulem Deen, posted on Salon.com on April 18, 2012. http://www.salon.com/2012/04/19/the_sound_of_sin/ Major Threat to Religion? Clergy People Coming Out as Atheists. By Greta Christina, posted on AlterNet.org on June 10, 2012. http://www.alternet.org/story/155798/major_threat_to_religion_clergy_people_coming_out_as_atheists

Marriage Equality How Does God Reveal Gods Self in Same-Sex Marriage? By Brian McLaren, posted on the Mennonite World Review website on September 27, 2011. http://www.mennoworld.org/blog/2011/9/27/how-does-god-reveal-gods-self-same-sex-marriage/ Vows: Chris Barley and Marc Kushner. By Anna Jane Grossman, posted in The New York Times website on April 13, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/fashion/weddings/chris-barley-and-marc-kushner-vows.html?pagewanted=all

Medieval Marginalia Cheeky Complaints Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts. By Maria Popova, posted on The Atlantic website on March 21, 2012. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/cheeky-complaints-monks-scribbled-in-the-margins-ofmanuscripts/254868/ 20 Bizarre Examples of Medieval Marginalia. By Baby Praying Mantis, posted on Buzzfeed on September 28, 2012. http://www.buzzfeed.com/babymantis/20-bizarre-examples-of-medieval-marginalia-1opu

Mennonites, Germantown Why We Need Each Other. By Amy Yoder McGloughlin, posted on Pastor Amys blog on April 13, 2012. http://www.germantownmennonite.org/pastor-amy-s-blog.blog/2012/04/13/Why-We-Need-Each-Other Historic Congregation Marks One Decade Independent. By Tim Huber, posted on Mennonite World Review website, October 15, 2012. http://www.mennoworld.org/2012/10/15/historic-congregation-marks-one-decade-independent/ Eastern District cuts ties with Germantown church. By Tim Huber, posted on Mennonite World Review website, November 26, 2012. http://www.mennoworld.org/2012/11/26/eastern-district-cuts-ties-germantown-church/

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Mennonites, Membership decline Ten Years Later. By Everett J. Thomas, posted on The Mennonite website on February 1, 2012. http://www.themennonite.org/issues/15-2/articles/Ten_years_later Whatever happened to Diamond Street? Freeman Miller describes success, demise of North Philadelphia congregation. By Freeman Miller, posted on The Mennonite website on November 1, 2012. http://www.themennonite.org/issues/15-11/articles/Whatever_happened_to_Diamond_Street MC USA membership drops; Numbers down by nearly 7,000. By Tim Huber, posted on Mennonite World Review website on January 15, 2013. http://www.mennoworld.org/2013/1/21/mc-usa-membership-drops/ Growing awareness: Seven years after profile of MC USA, northwest Ohio churches examine what lack of growth means for them. By Kelli Yoder, posted on the Mennonite World Review website on February 4, 2013. http://www.mennoworld.org/2013/2/4/growing-awareness/ To Fill Empty Pews. By Paul Schrag, posted on the Mennonite World Review website on February 4, 2013. http://www.mennoworld.org/2013/2/4/fill-empty-pews/

Mennonites, Mexican In Mexico, A Community on the Outside. By Amanda Erickson, posted The Atlantic Cities website on October 4, 2012. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/10/mexico-community-outside/3502/ To Some Mennonites in Mexico, Russia Looks Like Promised Land. By Tim Johnson, posted on McClatchy website on November 12, 2012. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/11/12/174247/to-some-mennonites-in-mexico-russia.html Ancestral Russia Lures Land-Hungry Mexican Mennonites. By Dave Graham, posted on the Reuters website on December 6, 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/06/us-mexico-mennonites-idUSBRE8B516520121206

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Mennonites, Welcoming congregations Allegheny Conference leaders recommend reconciliation with Hyattsville. By Everett J. Thomas, posted on The Mennonite website on May 7, 2012. http://www.themennonite.org/issues/15-5/articles/Allegheny_Conference_leaders_recommend_reconciliation Yes, I officiated a same-sex ceremony. Yes, I would do it again. By Joanna Harader, posted on the Mennonite World Review website on May 9, 2012. http://www.mennoworld.org/blog/2012/5/9/yes-i-officiated-same-sex-covenant-ceremony/?page=1 Community Mennonite Church Becomes A Welcoming Congregation. By Andrew Jenner, posted on oldsouthhigh.com on February 7, 2013. http://www.oldsouthhigh.com/2013/02/07/community-mennonite-church-becomes-a-welcoming-congregation/ A place at Gods table: Hope Mennonite Church extends communion to LGBTQ community. By Evelyn Rempel Petkau, posted on the Canadian Mennonite website on February 18, 2013. http://www.canadianmennonite.org/articles/place-gods-table

Mental Illness Jesus Christ may have suffered from mental health problems, claims Church of England. By Ted Jeory, posted on the website of the Daily and Sunday Express on August 28, 2012. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/341926/Jesus-Christ-may-have-suffered-from-mental-health-problems-claimsChurch-of-England Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses. By Stephen C. Webster, posted on The Raw Story on April 17, 2013. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/study-belief-in-an-angry-god-associated-with-variety-of-mental-illnesses/

Mindfulness 5 Steps For Being Present. By Michael J. Formica, posted on Psychology Today website on June 14, 2011. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/enlightened-living/201106/5-steps-being-present

Missionaries Coalition of Christian Groups Issues Guidelines for Missionaries. By Jaweed Kaleem, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on August 28, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/christian-missionary-guidelines_n_886128.html Please Stop Trying to Convert Me. By Remy M. Maisel, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on November 8, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/remy-m-maisel/please-stop-trying-to-convert-me_b_2031389.html

Moonies Life Without Reverend Moon. By Jen Kiaba, posted on The Hairpin website on October 22, 2012. http://thehairpin.com/2012/10/life-without-reverend-moon

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New York City Hungry Minds: Tales from a Chelsea Soup Kitchen. By Ian Frazier, posted on The New Yorker website on May 26, 2008. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_frazier A Bronx Tale: After the Congregants of an Orthodox Synagogue Could No Longer Afford Their Rent, They Found Help in the Local Mosque. By Ted Regencia & Lindsay Minerva, posted on the Tablet website on January 23, 2012. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/88849/a-bronx-tale-3 Robert W. Castle Jr., Outspoken Harlem Priest and Accidental Actor, Dies at 83. By Margalit Fox, posted on The New York Times website on November 6, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/nyregion/robert-w-castle-jr-outspoken-harlem-priest-dies-at-83.html

Pacifism The 6 Most Aggressively Badass Things Done by Pacifists. By J.F. Sargent & Dustin Koski, posted on Cracked.com on December 23, 2012. http://www.cracked.com/article_20157_the-6-most-aggressively-badass-things-done-by-pacifists.html

Progressive Christianity The Inevitability of the Rise of Progressive Christianity. By John Shore, posted on JohnShore.com on September 19, 2011. Quotable quote: Theology follows sociology. http://johnshore.com/2011/09/19/the-inevitability-of-the-rise-of-liberal-christianity/ Project Gubbio at St. Boniface: sanctuary of sleep. By Heather Knight, posted on SFGate.com on March 12, 2012. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Project-Gubbio-at-St-Boniface-sanctuary-of-sleep-3407103.php Beyond the Possible: The Story of Glide Church. By Cecil Williams & Janice Miriktani, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on February 20, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/beyond-the-possible-excerpt_n_2672555.html

Religious Mania The Jerusalem Syndrome: Why Some Religious Tourists Believe They Are The Messiah. By Chris Nashawaty, posted on Wired.com on February 17, 2012. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_jerusalemsyndrome/all/1

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Religious Trauma Syndrome The Lives Less Lived: Sons & Daughters of Perdition. By Mandy De Waal, posted on the Daily Maverick website on March 11, 2012. http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-03-11-the-lives-less-lived-sons-daughters-of-perdition#.UU-fg1uk8yE Religious Trauma Syndrome: How Some Organized Religion Leads to Mental Health Problems. By Valerie Tarico, posted on her blog Away Point on March 26, 2013. http://awaypoint.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/religious-trauma-syndrome-is-it-real/

Sex Study: Religious People Still Have Sex, They Just Feel Worse About It. By Kelly Bourdet, posted on Nerve.com on May 20, 2011. http://www.nerve.com/news/love-sex/study-religious-people-still-have-sex-they-just-feel-worse-about-it

Simple Living Woman Hasnt Used Money in 15 Years. By Spooky, posted on Oddity Central on July 8, 2011. http://www.odditycentral.com/news/woman-hasnt-used-money-in-15-years.html Michael Swaines Free Mending Library Repairs Clothes, Community. By Amy DuFault, posted on ecouterre.com on March 14, 2013. http://www.ecouterre.com/a-free-mending-library-in-san-francisco-that-creates-community/

Unitarian Universalism Kings God: The Unknown Faith of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Robert James Scofield, posted on the Tikkun website. http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/nov_dec_09_scofield He Found Where He Belongs; Former Conservative Mennonite Finds His Calling in the Unitarian Church. By Joan Kern, posted on Lancaster Online on March 16, 2012. http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/606629_He-found-where-he-belongs.html Unitarian Universalists See Chance for Growth in Growth of Secularism. By Bob Smietana, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on October 5, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/unitarian-universalists-growth_n_1941382.html Liberal Theology and the Uncertainness of God. By Rev. G. Jude Geiger, posted on Huffingtonpost.com on November 28, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-g-jude-geiger/liberal-theology-and-the-uncertainness-of-god_b_2146655.html

Revised April 28, 2013

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