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Book review: ‘The Sabbath Experiment’

The Sabbath Experiment: Spiritual Formation for Living in a Non-Stop World transports me back to childhood, when observing the Sabbath was unselfconscious and assumed. Those

Laurie Oswald Robinson

January 4, 2016

Book review: ‘Peace, Progress and the Professor’

Perry Bush’s Peace, Progress and the Professor is technically a biography of Mennonite historian C. Henry Smith. But it’s actually a timely time machine. It

Rich Preheim

December 21, 2015

Book review: ‘Mennonites Encounter Hinduism’

Fifty years ago there was little public discussion of interfaith or inter-religious dialogue in Mennonite circles or in the Christian community generally. Some academic specialists

Edgar Metzler

December 7, 2015

Book review: ‘Nonviolent Action’

Most people know, at least generally, what Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. did to effect change with nonviolence. But can you name

Ted Lewis

November 23, 2015

Book review: ‘A Living Alternative’

Some of the brightest new voices in the Anabaptist tradition fill a recent anthology, A Living Alternative: Anabaptist Christianity in a Post-Christendom World. Twenty contributors offer

Melodie M. Davis

November 9, 2015

Book review: ‘Between 2 Gods’

Trudy Harder Metzger is an author, speaker, trauma coach and survivor of long-standing patterns of abuse and incest — patterns inherent in some Old Colony

Katie Funk Wiebe

October 26, 2015

A pastor’s life, by one who loves it

Aw, shucks. Larry beat me to it. I’ve been dreaming of writing a memoir of pastoral life describing critical moments of formation and practice. But

Dorothy Nickel Friesen

October 12, 2015

Are Californians different?

This survey of Mennonite migrations and developments in California from 1850 to 1975 focuses on three groups — the Mennonite Brethren, the General Conference Mennonites

Rachel Waltner Goossen

September 28, 2015

A father’s life, from a daughter’s view

“I never saw my father saunter,” says Katie Funk Wiebe as she introduces the hero of her latest book — her father, Jacob J. (Jake)

Shirley Hershey Showalter

September 14, 2015

Killing God, finding God

The title of Emily Hedrick’s novel might initially seem problematic, even sacrilegious. What believer would wish to read the confessional work of someone who has

Melanie Springer Mock

August 31, 2015

Moral failures of the ‘good war’

In The Good War That Wasn’t — And Why It Matters: World War II’s Moral Legacy, Ted Grimsrud attempts to prove that American involvement in

James Regier

August 17, 2015

The Hutterite way to be plain

Linda Maendel is the first Hutterite to write and illustrate a children’s book. She blogs, writes news articles and teaches school. Hutterite Diaries is one

Katie Funk Wiebe

August 3, 2015

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