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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

Book review: ‘Love Undocumented’

Immigration has shaped nearly every epoch of U.S. history. Americans are a nation of people who have left one place in order to arrive in

Ted Lewis

November 19, 2018

Book review: ‘The Pastor Wears a Skirt’

Contemporary memoir, unlike autobiography, is selective in its sharing of life experiences for a defined purpose: to represent a voice, often that of a woman,

Raylene Hinz-Penner

November 5, 2018

Book review: Warriors who renounced war

Three decades ago, Julie Putnam Hart sat in a peace lecture opposing the Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars. Intrigued by the presenter’s

Steve Goering

October 22, 2018

Book review: The Book of books isn’t boring

I have a nasty suspicion that a comprehensive review of the Bible will either be: a) too long, complicated and detailed; or b) too general

Dorothy Nickel Friesen

October 8, 2018

Book review: ‘Believe Me’

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election surprised almost everyone. How did it happen? Evangelical Christians had a lot to do with it.

Richard Kyle

September 24, 2018

Book review: ‘A Midwife in Amish Country’

In her excellent 2013 study of the Amish romance, Thrill of the Chaste, Valerie Weaver-Zercher decisively argues that books about the Amish are predominantly written

Melanie Springer Mock

September 17, 2018

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