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Book review: ‘Living on the Edge of the Edge’

The cover of Living on the Edge of the Edge: Letters to a Younger Colleague shows a dramatic photograph with a deep and beautiful canyon in

Ardie Goering

March 12, 2018

Book review: ‘Saving Germany’

Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 is a book about North American Protestant efforts to “save” Germany from social

James C. Juhnke

February 26, 2018

Book review: ‘The Fog of Faith’

In early January, Oprah Winfrey gave an astounding speech at The Golden Globe awards, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement and declaring

Melanie Springer Mock

February 12, 2018

Book review: ‘Cross Vision’

Why does violence happen? How can we make sense of it? How can we prevent it? These questions are by no means particular to Christians.

Ted Lewis

January 29, 2018

Book review: ‘More Than One Thing is True’

I met Urbane Peachey about 20 years ago. I’d just accepted an invitation to serve as interim pastor for Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster, Pa.

Ron Adams

January 15, 2018

Book review: ‘(Re)union’

Bruxy Cavey’s (Re)union: The Good News of Jesus for Seekers, Saints and Sinners gave me a glimpse into megachurch theology attempting to work itself out

Melissa Florer-Bixler

January 1, 2018

Book review: ‘The Internationalists’

Mennonite peace activists in the 1930s were a small part of an international peace movement to promote the Kellogg-Briand treaty. That treaty, passed in 1928,

James C. Juhnke

December 18, 2017

Book review: ‘Plain Meetinghouses’

With all the attention given to the way plain Anabaptists live their daily lives, it’s easy to forget that they are, at a fundamental level,

Rich Preheim

December 4, 2017

Book review: ‘Two Weeks Every Summer’

Now and then a person comes upon a book that is hard to read precisely because it disturbs the comfort zones of his or her

Ted Lewis

November 20, 2017

Book review: ‘When the English Fall’

Iwill not soon forget an image David Williams creates in the opening chapters of his excellent novel, When the English Fall. The image is searing

Melanie Springer Mock

November 6, 2017

Book review: ‘Recollections of a Sectarian Realist’

College president, relief administrator and theologian J. Lawrence Burkholder died in Goshen, Ind., in 2010 at age 93. Shortly afterward, his daughter Myrna began editing

Perry Bush

October 23, 2017

Book review: ‘God’s Country’

Does God love the rural church? Does God love the rural communities that the rural church is rooted in? Do we love the rural church

Alan Stucky

October 9, 2017

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