Healthy bodies and stewardship

North Americans (in particular, those from the United States) face many obstacles cultivating healthy bodies. Increased technology replaces many forms of manual labor with automation. Our occupations require little movement in order to function. We eat increasingly larger quantities of food and have become what author Eric Schlosser terms a “fast food nation" ...

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Articles

• Healthy bodies and stewardship
• Food is a gift
• Finding Christ in Harry Potter
• The deadly sin of lust

News stories, digests and Meno Acontecer

• Bluffton students offer flood relief for community
• Soymilk offers nutrition for children in North Korea
• BikeMovement DVDs sent to all churches
• Bluffton students to Pittsburgh and Ireland
• Concert proceeds benefit Western District
• MDS finishes house started at San José 2007
• Israeli settlers threaten land, injure activist
• Goshen students to offer relief aid in Peru
• Churches in Haiti feel Hurricane Dean
• Meadows Mennonite Church ends ministry
• Scholarship brings graduation in Congo

Columns

• Habakkuk, Jesus and God's work
• When debt becomes too much
• Embodied faith

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• The legacy of cancer
• Israel, China and Wal-Mart
• Too concerned with outward appearances
• Health insurance for all
• Poem one of the best
• MARP announcement misleading
• Men are responsible to control themselves
• Not ashamed of the gospel