John L. Ruth wrote ’Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite View of the American Revolution because he couldn’t find stories about his eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the American Revolution in history books.
John L. Ruth wrote ’Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite View of the American Revolution because he couldn’t find stories about his eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the American Revolution in history books.
Sometimes during the harried first years of raising toddler, then preschooler twins, one with Down syndrome, I escaped through our woods to the creek, Briery Branch, and stacked rocks.
The October 2025 issue of Anabaptist World includes several mini reviews of recent books on faith and introspection.
A group is working to bring Dirk Willems back to his hometown.
Strangers in the Land, the recently published book by New Yorker editor Michael Luo, chronicles the journey of Chinese immigrants to the American West, and then eastward across the country. Perhaps inevitably, it is also an account of the violence and bigotry directed against them, which only became more intense as the boom years of the Western Gold Rush gave way to the economic downturn that followed the Civil War.
In his new book, Ambrosino grapples with the age-old question of why God allows bad things to happen to good people.
