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In lively and accessible style, Ted Grimsrud portrays God's persevering love as the heart of the Bible's message and challenges Christians to let that love shape their lives today.

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Brown presents the memoir of a girl raised in a fundamentalist Christian milieu who casts off at a young age and her quest to find wholeness and home, spiritually, and sexually.

The chapters in this book are based upon a conference of representative members of the Historic Peace Churches in Asia that took place in Solo, Indonesia, December 2-7, 2007"--Introd.

Aiming to write for these who tell her "I don't like poetry, but I like what you write, " Longenecker aims to create poems that are textually accessible and often traditional in form yet (as her title poem signals) use the ordinary to convey the extraordinary." "(summary)"--Provided by publisher.

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Hubert Schwartzentruber's life has spanned dramatic extremes: farming near Lake Huron, ministry in the St. Louis, Missouri Pruitt-Igoe towers, denominational service, pastoring in diverse congregations, welcoming the tears of a young girl homesick at camp who said, "They won't let me cry." But one thing has remained constant: his love for the church and his prophetic desire that it bring justice among both the broken and those who break them.

Mary K. Oyer is a remarkable woman whose teaching has touched many people directly and personally. Nurturing Spirit through Song explores her noteworthy life and contributions to church-related music and hymnody.

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In this rich collection of essays we witness a vigorous exchange between spirited scribes and Rene Girard. His work has challenged them to grapple with the relationship between violence, religion, the God of the Bible, and the death of Christ.

Drawing on postmodern as well as black, feminist, and womanist insights, Weaver shows that peace-oriented Anabaptist-Mennonite thought contains seeds of a theology that is biblical but poses an alternative to the theology of Christendom, which accommodates violence.

Deeply concerned about the state of the world, the Klassens examine ways ordinary people can commit to selfless love in order to strengthen and expand the reality of justice and peace.

The first book-length treatment of the flowering of American Mennonite writing of the last two decades, this book combines careful scholarship with Jeff Gundy's frank, sometimes sardonic, often funny, deeply engaged commentary on Mennonite writing and culture.

Zimmerman makes significant contributions to Yoder studies, including the use of archival material to provide insight into the development of Yoders thought and his relationship to mentors and peers.--Craig A. Carter, author of "The Politics of the Cross: The Theology and Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder." (Christian)

In his large and ambitious project, Noll weaves many strands of academic thinking about human conflict into an integrated view of why people fight, how they fight, what they fight overand how they can instead make peace, whether in the courtroom or beyond.

This study of a Mennonite denominational body's deliberations over excommunicating a congregation for its stand on homosexuality will engage students and scholars of hermeneutics, rhetoric, communication, conflict, Gadamer, homosexuality, "culture wars", church leaders and pastors, anyone interested in how true understanding unfolds-or not-amid conflict.