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New missions prof experienced in field

After traveling to many different places, including Palestine, as a missionary, Eastern’s new associate professor of missions decided to try something different. Andrew Bush began serving as a missionary in 1986, ministering mostly in the Philippines, southeast Asia and Ramallah, Palestine. He and his wife decided to move back to […]

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Labor Day trips mean fun on the beach, in Philly

The Student Activity Board’s Labor Day trips proved to be a worthwhile undertaking, according to its members. On Labor Day, the SAB sponsored free trips to Ocean City, New Jersey and Philadelphia’s South Street. They were also going to sponsor a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo but canceled the trip […]

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Yes! And. . . article

–FYI–Recently came across your pic of me w/kids from one of this summer’s camps, and wanted to point out that the camp being pictured was not held in Chestnut Hill, as the caption suggested, but rather the Brewerytown section of North Philly at Trinity Baptist Church.

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The Mennonite confessions

If you’re from Philadelphia, New Jersey, or eastern Pennsylvania, you probably know who the Amish are. To some, they stand out like fish on dry land, or, more noticeably, like horse-drawn buggies traveling alongside automobiles on Route 30. The Amish are a peculiar people who dress as if they’re living […]

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Race, class and a hurricane

In the United States, oppression, discrimination, misrepresentation and marginalization of African-Americans are an integral part of our history and experience. We live in a society where social stratification exists. That is, people are routinely and hierarchically categorized on the bases of race and class. Low socio-economic groups and people of […]

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Who says expensive gas is bad?

I’d like to make it clear that I DO hug trees, but only for money. I’m an arborist, which means I climb all over maples, poplars and oaks, but do it surrounded by gas-powered chainsaws, leaf blowers and an old Dodge dump-truck whose tank costs around $90 to top off. […]