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In this book, Katie Funk Wiebe speaks honestly, faithfully, and movingly of life's later border crossings and shows that in the twilight time between night and fading day some of life's greater sorrows but also larger joys can be felt. She conveys her experience so powerfully and authentically that it becomes universal. Anyone struggling through the pain and promise of crossing into one of life's new stages will find in these pages a kindred s...

This text presents the account of a Mennonite mission doctor tried for a patient's murder. As this suspenseful, true-life drama unfolds, readers are given access to an ancient, clan-based culture few Americans have experienced in a country recently declared by the United Nations as a humanitarian crisis "worse than Darfur.

This memoir records Wiebe's search for identity as a woman left widowed with young children, who becomes a writer and an early Mennonite and biblical feminist.

This volume is a collection of essays in honor of the life and ministry of an exceptionally prolific and creative Mennonite. John L. Ruth, historian, filmmaker, storyteller and pastor, has wrestled with the themes of community, inclusion/exclusion, and art within a traditional religious fellowship. The books writers have themselves thought deeply about these themes of community, the artist, and Christian faith. They include Julia Kasdorf, Jan ...

A 20th-century Anabaptist ponders key questions while telling his 90-year life story. While encountering a traumatized post-World War II Europe, Peachey and Mennonite colleagues saw strengths in their heritage and developed concerns that their denomination's focus on professionalization and institution building risked hiding the Anabaptist light.

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The Mennonite writers of this book include Esther K. Augsburger, Myron S. Augsburger, Titus W. Bender, James R. Bomberger, Gerald R. Brunk, Ray Gingerich, Samuel L. Horst, Albert N. Keim, C. Norman Kraus, Nancy V. Lee, Harold D. Lehman, John R. Martin, Paul Peachey, Calvin W. Redekop, and Calvin E. Shenk.

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Two days after his forth-sixth birthday, Warren Cadwallader-Staub learned his chronic back pain was caused by multiple myeloma. This poetry collection records the realities of living with someone dying of cancer as well as the author's journey through death back to her own healing"--Provided by publisher.

Chiefly rev. essays delivered at a conference held in Aug. 2007 at Messiah College.

How does a Mennonite farm girl, whose "closed" Oregon community prescribed a limited role for women and distrusted education, end up a university president? Journey with Snyder as as she explores the surprising and unexpected paths that opened her doors to education and leadership.

Storage Issues pictures an individual wandering through the remains of communal life. These personal lyric and narrative poems search for meaning in the background, events, and concerns of one Mennonite woman's existence." "(summary)" --Provided by publisher.

Bernard Lafayette, Jr., puts it simply: "Governor Guillermo is the Martin Luther King, Jr. of Colombia." Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, who cofounded the Community of the Peace People in Northern Ireland, says that "Governor Gaviria's writings reveal a brave and deeply spiritual man, whose compassionate heart and fine mind were not corrupted.

Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Penn State University, says "These poems celebrate spirit and gracefully yet completely explode all plain-woman stereotypes, then finally come to rest--if there is rest in such a lively collection--in celebration of our shared, sacred Earth.

Sixteen Mennonite writers, whose lives have had worldwide impact while linked to service at Eastern Mennonite University, map their life journeys across the geography of their lives, thoughts, and faith perspectives.