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Book review: ‘A Doubter’s Guide to God’

When I was young, I had no idea normal people doubted God. So when I doubted, I was ashamed. Normal people believed. They flourished as

Michael A. King

April 10, 2017

Book review: ‘Wholly, Holey, Holy’

In his self-published memoir, Melvin D. Schmidt reflects on his life and nearly 50 years as a Mennonite pastor. It is a page-turner, wonderfully written

Dorothy Nickel Friesen

March 27, 2017

Book review: ‘A People of Two Kingdoms II’

Half a century ago, James C. Juhnke was a graduate student in history at Indiana University, completing a dissertation on his people, Kansas Mennonites, and

Perry Bush

March 13, 2017

Book review: ‘Martyrs Mirror: A Social History’

Martyrs Mirror has shaped the Anabaptist tradition more powerfully than any book besides the Bible. That is the premise of David L. Weaver-Zercher’s masterful new

Ben Goossen

February 27, 2017

Book review: ‘Both My Sons’

I’m not one of those folks who reads historical fiction and longs for the past, for a more bucolic way of life and the wonder

Melanie Springer Mock

February 13, 2017

Book review: ‘A Witness in Times of War and Peace’

The subtitle of this memoir, “The Story of Gerhard Hein, a Mennonite Pastor Who Served in the Wehrmacht During World War II,” suggests why it

Mark Jantzen

January 30, 2017

Book review: ‘Righting America at the Creation Museum’

Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger Jr. describe the Creation Museum as an arsenal for the Christian Right’s culture wars. It’s an apt analogy,

Rich Preheim

January 16, 2017

Book review: ‘Daughters in the House of Jacob’

Who am I? Where am I going? How did I get here? Those are common questions for anyone looking into their family history and their

Amy Dueckman

January 2, 2017

Book review: ‘Enchantment and Despair’

The writer Flannery O’Connor once said, “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Laurie Oswald Robinson

December 19, 2016

Book review: ‘Becoming Amish’

The same desire and longing I identified in the rock/rebellion anti-establishment culture during my early 20s I have found in Christian culture and especially in

Roger Martin

December 5, 2016

Book review: ‘European Mennonites and the Challenge of Modernity Over Five Centuries’

Have Mennonites influenced the course of modern history? That is the question taken up in a new book on Anabaptists in Europe over the past

Ben Goossen

November 21, 2016

Book review: ‘Sick Religion or Healthy Faith?’

I look forward to reading the work of pastors. Pastors live close to the ground, in the muck and mire, vulnerable to the minutiae of

Melissa Florer-Bixler

November 7, 2016

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