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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

Book review: Mennonite daughter

Mennonite daughters through the years have lived very different lives depending on where their ancestors came from. Regardless of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, whether urban

Shirley Hershey Showalter

September 30, 2019

Book review: Crash Landing

In the summer of 2014, Liz Jansen set out on a solo cross-country motorcycle trip, hoping to trace her ancestors’ migration across Canada nearly a

Melanie Springer Mock

September 16, 2019

Book review: Nature and the Environment in Amish Life

Even before climate change emerged as an existential threat, the Amish were lauded for their environmentally friendly, off-the-grid lifestyle. Horse-drawn transportation, huge vegetable gardens, emphasis

Rich Preheim

September 2, 2019

Book review: Without a Plea

Jeff Gundy’s new book of poems is described on the cover as “sprawling,” “ambitious,” “probing and expansive.” I would add “roving and restless,” as Gundy

Raylene Hinz-Penner

August 19, 2019

Book review: From Risk to Resilience

Growing up as a girl in the 1980s was not a positive experience for me. I often felt ostracized because I didn’t fit cultural expectations

Melanie Springer Mock

August 5, 2019

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