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Book review: ‘Horse-and-Buggy Genius’

Royden Loewen’s new book examines how Old Colony and Old Order Mennonites try to maintain religious and cultural changelessness in a world that celebrates change.

Rich Preheim

July 4, 2016

Book review: ‘Breakaway Amish’

As a distinct religious and social group, the Amish have grown used to having their lives reported and interpreted by outsiders. Scholars study them. Novelists

Daniel Hertzler

June 20, 2016

Book review: ‘The Patient Ferment of the Early Church’

Alan Kreider, emeritus professor of church history and mission at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, has capped his career with a masterwork on the rise of

James C. Juhnke

June 6, 2016

Book review: ‘Lord Willing?’

People who have experienced devastating loss, like the death of a child or a terminal diagnosis, are familiar with the Christian clichés offered with loving

Melanie Springer Mock

May 23, 2016

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

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