Michael Bischoff, a 2002 graduate of CJP who is battling cancer, has been watched and coached by researchers who are studying an unusual medical question — namely, can the act of storytelling improve a person’s health?

Climate action group Renew Rocktown is partnering up with Matchbox Realty to create a coalition of businesses interested in reducing their carbon energy emissions. Business leaders will be able to meet with James Madison University and 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ professionals about their options to be more environmentally friendly.

Ever since Jess Okanya was a child, she has been interested in other cultures. So it’s no surprise that she was recently named interim executive director of Kairos: School for Spiritual Formation in Lancaster, Pa., where she hopes to explore other traditions.

Spiritual director Chris Hoover Seidel, on staff at the Center for Justice and Pecebuilding, writes about healing journeys within the body.

I don’t want to talk about it either. But in spite of the controversy, there’s a heightened need to address the relationship between guns and our faith.

North Salem (Oregon) boys soccer coach Rich Swartzentruber, 61, is in his 25th season as North Salem boys soccer coach, and 31st as a high school coach.

At 91¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, learning to understand the difference between chronic and traumatic stress is the first step in a training program called Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), said director Katie Mansfield.

Holly Scott is an assistant professor of history at 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ and a native of Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the author of Y (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016).

When 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ commissioned scholar Donald Kraybill to write a book about the school’s first 100 years, he said he wanted poetic license to look at the history through a sociological and theological lens. What emerged is a book that exposes the school’s warts as well as its highlights.

John and Jennifer Murch and their four children of Linville headed up the homemade glazed doughnut-making for a second year. More than 18,000 of the confectionery delights sold.