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Fall was in the air that October day of 1897. Mary Davidson Yoder hurried across Wooster, Ohio’s busy downtown square to the County Courthouse. Her younger sister Frances Davidson walked quickly beside her. Their mission was to acquire a passport for Frances, who planned to leave the United States for...read more
ELAINE ENNS and CHAD MYERS. Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021. Pp. 392. $38.00US. Healing Haunted Histories has emerged from decades of work in restorative justice and is a call to engage in the ministry of healing relationships with the land and its...read more
On May 3, 1903 from her post at Matopo Mission in Southern Rhodesia in southern Africa, H. Frances Davidson ((For biographical information see Morris Sider, “Frances Davidson,” in Nine Portraits: Brethren in Christ Biographical Sketches (Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1978), 159-214.)) penned a letter to three of her sisters, Ida Davidson Hoffman,1 Lydia...read more
SAMUEL J. STEINER. In Search of Promised Lands: A Religious History of Mennonites in Ontario. Harrisonburg, Virginia and Kitchener, Ontario: Herald Press, 2015. Pp. 877. US$70. Faith is passed on through story—from generation to generation. In these fast-changing times the old adage has never been more true: How can...read more