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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
MIRIAM TOEWS. Women Talking, New York, NY, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019, Pp. 216, $16US. First published in Canada in 2018 by Alfred A. Knopf. Women Talking is based on recent historical events, which occurred in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia, when more than one hundred of the women and girls...read more
SHANNON CRAIGO-SNELL. Disciplined Hope: Prayer, Politics, and Resistance. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019. Pp. 148. $21.00 (U.S.) This book is Shannon Craigo-Snell’s response to the 2016 election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. As a socially conscious professor of theology, she was stunned that we had “elected...read more
DAVID R. SWARTZ. Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 322. $34.95 (e-book $7.99) An associate professor of history at Asbury University in Wilmore, KY, David Swartz has previously written Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of...read more
LUU, PHUC. Jesus of the East: Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded. Harrisonburg VA. Herald Press. 2020. Pp. 256. $16.99 (U.S.) The first thing that comes to mind when reading this book is its timeliness. Author Phuc Luu positions his work to speak into a wounded society convulsing under #metoo,...read more
MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT. American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2020. Pp. 396. $28.00 (U.S.) In the late nineteenth century, both Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s paternal great-grandfathers moved from the East Coast to the High Plains, in large part for reasons of health. Melvin Markley...read more
PERRY YODER. Leviticus. Believers Church Bible Commentary Series. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2017. Pp. 341. $29.99 US. Perry Yoder’s commentary on Leviticus in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series is a helpful resource for pastors and lay persons who want to know more about Leviticus. This volume moves the reader...read more
SIGIT HERU SUKOCO AND LAWRENCE M. YODER. Gospel in the World of Java: A History of the Muria Javanese Mennonite Church GITJ. Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism. Goshen, IN: Goshen College, 2020. Pp. 448 (pdf version). $US 20. I applaud the work of Sukoco and Yoder in compiling...read more
DUKE KWON AND GREGORY THOMPSON. Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2021. Pp. 253. $19.39 US. Picture this: You sit down in your reading chair with a book and expect to internally be saying, “Yep, I know . . . ,” but instead...read more
MARILYNNE ROBINSON. Jack. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. Pp. 309. $17 US. Marilynne Robinson has become known as one of our most accomplished writers, both as novelist and essayist. Her writing engages moral and spiritual issues, which is not surprising, given that she is the daughter of...read more
MICHAEL R. COSBY. Creation of History: The Transformation of Barnabas from Peacemaker to Warrior Saint. Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 2017. Pp. 210. This compelling account of Saint Barnabas’ complex connections with the island of Cyprus and its political struggles will be of interest to a wide range of readers. Cosby,...read more
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
Carolyn Kimmel.First a Friend: The Life & Legacy of Alvan & Ardys Thuma. Printed by CreateSpace, 2015. Pp. 212. ISBN 978-1-5114-7150-3. “He saved my life,” (33), says (now former) Zambian Brethren In Christ (BIC) Bishop Thuma Hamukang’andu. “My father told me when I was a child, after a week, I...read more
DENNY WEAVER, ed., Education with the Grain of the Universe: A Peaceable Vision for the Future of Mennonite Schools, Colleges, and Universities.Foreword by Susan Schultz Huxman. Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing House, 2017. Pp. 360. $27.95. This volume of 20 essays is the product of a conference on the past, present,...read more
RONALD J. SIDER and BEN LOWE. The Future of Our Faith: An Intergenerational Conversation on Critical Issues Facing the Church. Brazos Press, 2016. Pp. 240. $12 (US) Ron Sider and Ben Lowe demonstrate their admirable ambition for the life of the church throughout The Future of our Faith,the latest of...read more