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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

Book review: Fire by Night

When I started reading Fire by Night, I expected the usual Old Testament topics: gore, war and law, with the author’s new insights. Or, might

Dorothy Nickel Friesen

May 13, 2019

Book review: ‘German Language: Cradle of our Heritage’

How is it that Old Order Amish and some Old Order Mennonites remain bilingual more than 10 generations after their arrival in North America? Most

Herman Bontrager

April 29, 2019

Book review: ‘Daddy Hold’

In 1999, the David and Debbie Landis family of Green Lane, Pa., pulled up stakes, leaving a thriving small business as well as loving relatives

Delmar Yoder

April 15, 2019

Book review: ‘Women Talking’

At first blush, the plot and setting of Miriam Toews’ new novel, Women Talking, might appear too limited in scope to be compelling. The book’s

Melanie Springer Mock

April 1, 2019

Book review: ‘Gathering of Sisters’

Tuesdays. Not a standout on most calendars. But for Darla Weaver and her four sisters, her mother and 18 nieces and nephews, Tuesday is the

Laurie Oswald Robinson

March 18, 2019

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