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Book review: ‘Magpie’s Blanket’

The novel Magpie’s Blanket begins this way: “The sky swallowed the sun, wrapping the yellow orb’s brilliance in moody, slate-colored tones, pressing it down close

Ardie Goering

May 9, 2016

Book review: ‘Bearing Witness’

An elected public official who refuses to fulfill the responsibilities of her position is lauded as a martyr when she is briefly jailed. Businesses that

Rich Preheim

April 25, 2016

Book review: ‘An Increase in Time’

This is not an average congregational history. But Germantown Mennonite Church is not an average congregation. Richard Lichty, the author of An Increase in Time: Story

Daniel Hertzler

April 11, 2016

Book review: ‘Overplayed’

When my 13-year-old son announced last spring that he wanted to play baseball again, I cringed. I had hoped the days of watching tedious games

Melanie Springer Mock

March 28, 2016

Book review: ‘Crossing the Loange’

One has to have one’s eyes open, one has to ask questions when they come to mind, or one finds oneself finished with a two-year

Ardie Goering

March 14, 2016

Book review: ‘Discovering Forgiveness’

Forgiveness is complicated. It is “an emerging, circular, interactive, complex process,” writes Larry A. Dunn in Discovering Forgiveness: Pathways Through Injury, Apology and Healing. Even

Ted Lewis

February 29, 2016

Book review: ‘Gather Around the Amish Table’

What other than an Amish-Mennonite cookbook describes how to feed 180 hungry men at a barn-raising, with a feast that includes 50 pounds of white

Laurie Oswald Robinson

February 15, 2016

Book review: ‘Abandoned Homeland’

In the title poem of Jeff Gundy’s Abandoned Homeland, the speaker begins with a question: “How else to describe this absurd, lovely world?” The rest

Melanie Springer Mock

February 1, 2016

Book review: ‘Doing Good Better’

It goes without saying that nonprofit organizations of all types are important. But what does need to be stated repeatedly is the importance of good

Rich Preheim

January 18, 2016

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

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