Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Now it's fine if the truth is real to you, but if it's not, it's you who are left out and not the truth. If you really believe that your sense of reality is the criterion of truth, as many people under thirty have believed recently, because they misunderstood their mothers who misunderstood Dr. Spock-if you believe that the truth of the truth depends on your sense of reality, that the world has to come to you to be accredited, then you're in trouble. john Howard Yoder Goshen College Convocation address, October 22, 1973 We can never really be a full member of our society, because the point of reference for the Christian is the Gospel, a gospel that is always expressed to us in culture and yet a gospel that stands in judgement on all culture. So the Christian. . . is a stranger and a pilgrim, always. Robert L. Ramseyer Coshen College Convocation address, November 7, 1973 .s 'N a fsqif -' X- -zrffap' ' .2 .-tam. x X Y g x X X' X N X x x is 2, : RX his X I 'X X s 1,6 3 X35 XX gigs, x Q X 'Nr' .,, as it s

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yn- gj, '6vUf - :' Wgugl 'K 'Q Mu V .,'. 5 PQ N ,. 3 . x V V' 'X Having been conditioned in my teens and twenties to believe that my quietistic heritage was a cultural dead end whose main relation to me was as something to be escaped. I find in my thirties and forties that, living among a nation of frenetic escapees, there is a Chagall-like intensity in my past that lends itself to a universal vision, if the viewer is alive enough . . .An identity-giving tradition is not something one can pick up at a bargain counter later in life. john L. Ruth Letter to Dawn Ruth, student at Goshen College, Memorial Day, 1972. We'll be coming up broadside against the demonic forces that are abroad, so remember who conquered them and with whom we are allied Professor Mary Bender Twentieth Century Fiction introductory lecture, Spring. 1973