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Book review: Exiled Among Nations

Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age is an impressive history of two Mennonite colonies in the Paraguayan Chaco — Menno

Rachel Waltner Goossen

July 28, 2020

Book review: Reconnect

Afew weeks into the Oregon governor’s stay-at- home orders, my family decided to institute its own decree about the use of cell phones: Every evening,

Melanie Springer Mock

July 13, 2020

Book review: Collateral Damage

Here is a dilemma for a church group. Do you post a “Gun-Free Zone” sign on the entrance knowing it could either make your church

Ted Lewis

June 29, 2020

Book review: I Am Not Your Enemy

I finished reading Michael McRay’s book just as deep fissures were developing in the United States about whether stay-at-home orders were an appropriate measure to

Melanie Springer Mock

June 15, 2020

Book review: American Harvest

“Certain conditions yield certain things.” In the setting of the Great Plains, an owner of a custom harvest crew offers this axiom in answer to

Dave Osborne

June 1, 2020

Book review: Seditions, Confusion and Tumult

The question left Layton Boyd Friesen befuddled: Why were the 16th-century Anabaptists so reviled and persecuted? The answer Friesen had learned — that they lived

Rich Preheim

May 18, 2020

Book review: Signs of Life

Each day can carry with it reminders of what we have lost. As time passes, we lose our youth, shedding as well some of the

Melanie Springer Mock

May 4, 2020

Book review: Yoder School

Frankly, I was a bit leery of taking up a country school hardship story, given that I have both lived that reality and read about it often.

Raylene Hinz-Penner

April 20, 2020

Book review: An Unlikely Trio

George J. Lapp (1879-1951) was one of those Mennonite pioneers who emerged at the turn of the 19th century and made a contribution to multiple

Shirley Hershey Showalter

April 6, 2020

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

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