First, thank you for your editorial, “Anti- vax conscientious objectors,” in which you support vaccination against COVID-19 (Oct. 8). Being vaccinated and wearing a face mask are the well-documented ways to protect ourselves and our neighbors. Sadly, many false warnings about the vaccines have created more fear of them than of the virus, which has now killed more than 720,000 people in the U.S. I hope many of our congregations will respond as is the Anabaptist church in Semarang, Indonesia, in conducting a vaccine clinic.

Second, I hope AW will publish reviews of recent books by Mennonite authors Evie Yoder Miller and Kathleen Weaver Kurtz. Miller’s Passages, the third and last volume in her “Scruples on the Line: A Fictional Series Set During the American Civil War” is described by Jeff Gundy as “draw[ing] us deeply into the heartbreaks, losses, struggles and persistence of its characters — Anabaptists caught up in the last bitter year of the Civil War.” Kurtz’s The Blistering Morning Mist, much of it set in the 1950s in Park View, Va., is one of the most moving, honest and beautiful memoirs I have ever read.

Nancy Lee, Madison, Wis.