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Randy Klassen studies every significant reference to hell in the Bible, seeking an interpretation that both takes the Bible seriously as the very Word of God and harmonizes with the character of the God and "Abba" revealed through Jesus Christ.

This volume, number 40 in the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series, publishes for the first time the diaries of several Mennonite conscientious objectors from the First World War. This edition uses historical, biographical, and literary approaches to understand these diaries and their significant role in telling the historical narrative of the Mennonites and of wartime in America

Through contemplative lyrics, historical narratives and edgy prose poems, this collection of poetry probes the intersections of self and other, private and public, and the individual and community. The title, Where We Start, is a fitting description for the many ways these poems explore the beginnings

Showalter invites readers along on a rollercoaster ride called AIDS, beginning the Saturday afternoon her husband Ray told her he had the dreaded disease.

The narrative poetry of Cheryl Denise gathers together her Canadian Mennonite roots, rural life and her attachment to the people and mountains of West Virginia. Her poetry is rich in concrete detail and many poems contain a storytelling quality. Subjects range from sheep farming to lusts and longings, biblical women, legs, old lovers and laundromats. Often humorous, she penetrates to the deep current of human relationship.

These poems balance between endings and beginnings, between the twilit melancholy of evening and the jubilant rebirth of morning. A grandfather loses his memory, while a toddler meets his shadow for the first time. Survivors tend the graves of ancestors, while the stories of those ancestors, handed down, light the way for those now living. Even while she laments the losses that beset any life, Wagner also celebrates the goodness of growing thi...

Here is a resource for any who cares about the recovery of faith-based educational practices that are part of a church-school-family ecology. Sara Wenger Shenk's aim is to present a strong rationale for tradition-based, critical education that incorporates core practices for strengthening faith communities into its theorizing.

Can those who hold differing positions on homosexuality learn from rather than battle each other? This book records what happens when the quest is not for victory but for writers who convey persuasively and movingly their own viewpoints to make them available as a treasure others can learn from, and to learn from the treasures of viewpoints other than their own. (Christian)

How does the church address its differences? How can the struggle draw Christians together rather than apart? This book tells of a gathering that asked these questions along with the responses from over 20 church leaders, including pastors, administrators, and teachers.

How can Christians love their neighbors and their enemies at the same time? What if the enemies are terrorists and tyrants, and the neighbors include the people they terrorize or tyrannize? Can governments be terrorists? Or only individuals? Is there a Golden Rule for nations? These are among the many urgent questions addressed in Loving Without Giving In.

In her first full-length collection, Empty Room with Light, Ann Hostetler draws on her training as a visual artist as she seeks to articulate moments of illumination in everyday life. The collection is structured by a series of frames playfully named after different forms of visual display, such as "Family Album, " "Exhibitions, " and "En Plein Air." A rich and varied palette of images-from the severe beauty of her Amish Aunt's flower garden t...

Many disparate and conflicting voices are addressing the contentious issue of homosexuality. The hope is that this book, rather than heightening the polarization, will begin to build bridges across the factions.

Here is a resource for Mennonites who wish to reach "beyond the Mennonite comfort zone." It should prove helpful to persons or congregations interested in exploring how visitors are received in a Mennonite church, how new members are (or aren't) assimilated, and how both long-term and recent Mennonites approach the many aspects of church life.

David Wright's poetry does not fit easily into poetic categories. Though they take up biblical texts and themes, the poems are not especially devotional. Nor are the poems merely academic, though they demonstrate considerable poetic craft. Instead, these poems suggest fresh ways of poetically singing within and against the Christian tradition.

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In 2005, Christian Peacemaker Team members Tom Fox, Jim Loney, Norman Kember, and Harmeet Sooden were kidnapped in Iraq. Fox was killed, and the other three men were freed after 118 days of captivity. This volume discusses the event's impact and results.

This collection of highly descriptive poems is comprised of lyrical meditations, narratives, dramatic monologues, and verse essays.

This book tells the story of the Mennonite-related work camp movement and its efforts to organize volunteers to help reconstruct Europe after World War II." "(summary)"--Provided by publisher.

For Mennonites and Amish, or any people who take their community of faith seriously, such a body can be loving arms of support or a smothering embrace. For Nevin and Esther and their family-and for so many others then and now-the church became a combination of these two experiences. Surveying a life of ministry ranging from Greenwood, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Mississippi, and beyond, this book tells how Nevin and Esther found the church a pl...

In this unique and compelling memoir, "a love story, " as foreword writer John Stahl-Wert puts it, the voice of a father intertwines with that of his young adult daughter, Deborah Good, as he fights the cancer that will kill him while telling the stories of seven projects, communities, and organizations (including Washington Community Scholars Center of Eastern Mennonite University) he has cared about. The resulting memoir provides an unusual ...