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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

Book review: Unraptured

The first thing you notice when you pick up Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets It Wrong, is that Rachel Held Evans wrote the foreword.

Sarah Kehrberg

July 22, 2019

Book review: Beating Guns

What do you get when you cross a Mennonite pastor with a blacksmith? Someone who forges weapons into plowshares! But this is no joke. A

Ted Lewis

July 8, 2019

Book review: Flee, Be Silent, Pray

Twenty years ago, Ed Cyzewski left his Roman Catholic faith to become an evangelical. This led him to a hard-driving way of faith that required

Laurie Oswald Robinson

June 24, 2019

Book review: Captive

Captive is a coming-of-age novel about friendship and self-discovery in the context of war, pacifism and the little-known story of German prisoners of war in

Rolando Santiago

June 10, 2019

Book review: The God Who Sees

This winter, as I read Karen González’s excellent new book on immigration, troubling news continued to unfold about events at the United States’ southern border.

Melanie Springer Mock

May 27, 2019

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