January 29
1:30-2:30 pm at Greencroft Community Center, Jennings Auditorium
Some say that being a college president is the hardest leadership job around. President Rebecca Stoltzfus, the 18th president of Goshen College, will speak about what fuels her passion for leading GC at this time, along...
February 5
1:30-2:30 pm at Greencroft Community Center, Jennings Auditorium
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” - James Baldwin, 1969. The idea that multiple, distinct, races exist is a way of explaining...
February 12
1:30-2:30 pm at Greencroft Community Center, Jennings Auditorium
Horizon Education Alliance (HEA) was founded in 2012 to build on an idea that had been percolating in Elkhart County for many years: working together, the business community and the education community could help make this...
February 19
1:30-2:30 pm at Greencroft Community Center, Jennings Auditorium
Over the seven years (1990-1997) Marilyn and I were in Calcutta, I met Mother Teresa more than twenty-five times. The common work of the Missionaries of Charity and Mennonite Central Committee in helping the poor of...
Current Classes
March 3, 5, 10, 12 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Goshen Community Center
We will survey the life, culture, and schooling of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which flies two flags and has two national hymns! Close to 35 percent of these U.S. citizens lodged in the Caribbean Sea are bilingual...
March 23, 25 | 2-3:30 p.m.
March 30 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Goshen College Umble Center
April 1 | 7:30-10 p.m.
Goshen College Umble Center
(A midweek performance of the full play)
Doug Liechty Caskey, Goshen College...
April 6, 7, 8, 9 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Goshen Community Center
The Dutch Golden Age was an era when the visual arts, medicine, business, education, theater, poetry, theology, and publication flourished. Mennonites were deeply engaged with all of these disciplines. This...
April 13, 15, 20, 22 | 10-11:30 a.m.
Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Goshen Community Center
Did you know that you have bugs in your eyelashes? Do you know how your skin repairs itself? How do bones heal? What exactly is a stroke? Are heart attacks all the same? How does the body defend itself from...
April 16 | 8:30-4 p.m. (day trip)
Meet at Greencroft Community Center north entrance
Come along on a trip through Amish country and step off the bus at various Amish businesses: a buggy shop, a casket maker, a toymaker, a chime maker, a leather shop and to visit an Amish school! We’ll have a...
April 28 | 1-4 p.m.
April 30; May 5, 7 | 1-4 p.m. field trip
(May 8 — rain date)
Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Goshen Community Center
The Smiths have been identifying, photographing, and keeping inventories of native wildflowers in local parks and...
May 11, 13, 18, 20 | 10-11:30 a.m.
Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Goshen Community Center
Some of the most inspiring, informative and entertaining stories are to be found in the obituary section—or used to be. There are so many lives worth celebrating, but fewer journalists devote time to writing...
May 27, 29; June 1, 3 | 10-11:30 a.m.
Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Goshen Community Center
The twelve prophets we call “minor”—because their books are shorter—worked in the most turbulent times of Israel’s history. Imperial powers, from what is now Iraq and Iran, posed overwhelming...