Article Author: Nancy R. Heisey | Brethren In Christ Historical Society

Circle of Hope
A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

December 2024 p. 1438–442 | Book Review

ELIZA GRISWOLD. Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Pp. 332. $30.00 (U.S.) When a book is published by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, excerpted in The New Yorker, blurbed by Christian luminaries such as Kristin Kobes...read more

Excerpts from “Relief Work as Pilgrimage”
"Mademoiselle Miss Elsie" in Southern France, 1945-1948.

By M. J. Heisey & Nancy R. Heisey

December 2023 p. 364–413 | Article

Celebrations and Convictions
Honoring the Life and Legacy of Dr. Luke L. Keefer, Jr.

By Nancy R. Heisey

December 2018 p. 324–326 | Book Review

ROBERT DOUGLASS and WYNDY CORBIN REUSCHLING, eds., Celebrations and Convictions: Honoring the Life & Legacy of Dr. Luke L. Keefer, Jr. Mechanicsburg, PA: Brethren in Christ Historical Society, 2015. Pp. 269. $??. “Chances are that if you are reading this book you already know something about Luke Keefer,” writes J....read more

Brethren in Christ Engagement In Mennonite World Conference

By Nancy R. Heisey

April 2015 p. 3–12 | Article, Featured

The world of the first Jesus followers was a world of “us and them.” The Scriptures present this first of all as the language of the people of God, Israelites and eventually Jews, who knew the rest as the “nations,” or “Gentiles.” Of course, Greeks and Romans also saw the...read more