Book Review

various authors

Book review: Service: The Path to Justice

A friend asked when justice became a conspicuous topic for the worldwide church. I suggested the crises of the 20th century inspired an almost constant

John A. Lapp

March 23, 2020

Book review: All That Belongs

Catherine has spent her professional lifetime preserving the histories of others. As an archivist, she gathers the ephemera of people’s lives, bringing order to the

Melanie Springer Mock

March 9, 2020

Book review: Hope’s Table

Providing food for oneself and family is a daily chore. Should you decide to complete this chore by actually cooking something, your resources are legion.

Sarah Kehrberg

February 24, 2020

Book review: Liminal Sovereignty

This study of two minority religious communities in northern Mexico — Old Colony Mennonites and Mormon colonists — focuses on the accommodation of these groups

Rachel Waltner Goossen

February 10, 2020

Book review: Raising Disciples

Natalie Frisk and I have something in common: Our earliest memories of Sunday school include damp, musty church basements. Many assumed these places were where

June Galle Krehbiel

January 27, 2020

Book review: Terror, Faith and Relief

The late Mennonite Brethren writer Katie Funk Wiebe, who died in 2016, was passionate about translating Die Hungersnot in Russland und Unsere Reise um die

Rich Preheim

January 13, 2020

Book review: Bowery Mission

When Pastor Jason Storbakken began planning his sermon for Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship’s commemoration of Native American Day (Columbus Day), he didn’t know it would be

Susan Miller

December 23, 2019

Book review: Addiction Nation

Does America have a problem with pain? Specifically, do we have a problem with coping with pain? Perhaps with managing pain? And if so, does

Ted Lewis

December 9, 2019

Book review: Speaking of God

Speaking of God is the task of all Christians. A lot has been said, and the story of this conversation is not a simple one.

Dorothy Nickel Friesen

November 27, 2019

Book review: Light from Distant Stars

Probably because I teach English at a Christian university, I get wrangled into conversations about what defines Christian literature. Does the content need to be

Melanie Springer Mock

November 13, 2019

Book review: On the Banks of Jacobs Creek

For more than a century, Scottdale was known for the printed word. The southwestern Pennsylvania city was the location of the (Old) Mennonite Church’s Mennonite

Rich Preheim

October 28, 2019

Book review: Finding Father

The essays in Finding Father are both tender and troubled. Some are loving, elegiac tributes to men who nurtured their daughters. Others seem almost confused:

Sarah Kehrberg

October 14, 2019

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