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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

Book review: The new gods of technology

It’s staggering to think how human communication technologies have changed from the time of the telegraph to the internet. What’s more staggering is to consider

Ted Lewis

March 4, 2019

Book review: Spiritual cousins not so distant

For many Mennonites, the Brethren in Christ are distant spiritual cousins. The BIC, while firmly Anabaptist, have also drawn deeply from the wells of pietism

Rich Preheim

February 18, 2019

Book review: ‘Flight: Mennonites facing the Soviet Empire in 1929-30’

We live in an era of human flight and displacement. The United Nations Refugee Agency says there are more than 68 million refugees throughout the

James C. Juhnke

February 4, 2019

Book review: ‘From James Joyce to Organic Farming’

Maynard Kaufman is a South Dakota farm boy, a Joycian scholar and post-Christian theologian, a multidisciplinary professor in religious and environmental studies, an organic farmer,

S. Roy Kaufman

January 21, 2019

Book review: ‘The Four Gifts’

The Four Gifts by April Yamasaki evokes for me Jesus’ search for solitude after his work of healing among the crowds. It seems that some

Laurie Oswald Robinson

January 7, 2019

Book review: ‘Surviving Failure’

Forty years ago, Merle and Phyllis Pellman Good already were among the highest-profile entrepreneurs in the Mennonite church. Their Good Enterprises, based in Intercourse, Pa.,

Rich Preheim

December 17, 2018

Book review: ‘The Great Reckoning’

In October, the longtime evangelical leader Pat Robertson weighed in on the murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi in a Saudi consulate. According to Robertson, the

Melanie Springer Mock

December 3, 2018

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