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STEPHEN P. MILLER.The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 221. $19.95 (U.S.). For historians of American religion, it has become common practice—even a professional necessity—to begin any study of American evangelicalism with the admission that it is almost impossible to succinctly and objectively...read more
JANNEKEN SMUCKER. Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. 270. $22.00 (U.S.) Published by the Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, with Donald L. Kraybill, as the series editor, this book sets itself up to be the official history of Amish...read more
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, God’s Reign and the End of Empires. Miami: Convivium Press, 2012. Pp365. $26 (US). Translated from Spanish by Joseph V. Owens. Revised by Doris and Tom Strieter. Gonzalez presents a comprehensive biblical study, from Genesis to the Revelation, of what it means to be in the Kingdom of...read more
MARTY TROYER. The Gospel Next Door: Following Jesus Right Where You Are.Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2016. Pp. 206. $15.99 (U.S.) Marty Troyer is the pastor of Houston Mennonite Church, a dynamic congregation in the heart of one of America’s largest cities. He has written this book in an effort to...read more
BRUXY CAVEY. Reunion: The Good News of Jesus for Seekers, Saints, and Sinners. Harrisonburg, VA. Herald Press, 2017. Pp. 207. $21.99 (U.S.) Part One of this book begins with a personal story that will make some readers want to shut the book and throw it across the room. For others,...read more
PERRY BUSH. Peace, Progress, and the Professor: The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2015. 457 pages. $29.99. Henry Smith (1875-1948) was a fascinating and important American Mennonite figure whose story has been well told by Perry Bush in Peace, Progress, and the Professor: The Mennonite...read more
EILEEN R. KINCH. Gathering the Silence. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2013. Pp. 25. $12.00 (U.S.) There’s much to savor in the 21 poems making up Eileen R. Kinch’s Gathering the Silence. A Quaker from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Kinch draws on heritage and experience to engage ideas of contrast and...read more
GORDON ZERBE. Philippians. Believers Church Bible Commentary. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2016. Pp. 349. $29.99. Imagine you are in an art museum, admiring a painting of a beautiful woodsy landscape. Suddenly, magically, the painting comes alive and three-dimensional, and you can walk right into it and explore the countryside! If...read more
JAY BEAMAN AND BRIAN K. PIPKIN, eds. Pentecostal and Holiness Statements on War and Peace. Pentecostals, Peacemaking, and Social Justice Series. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2013. Pp. 291. $34.00 (USD) In light of Jay Beaman’s and Brian K. Pipkin’s extensive research, scholars will have to rethink their assessment of Pentecostalism and...read more
BARRY L. CALLEN, ed. The Holy River of God: Currents and Contributions of the Wesleyan Holiness Stream of Christianity. Aldersgate Press, 2016. Pp. 252. $14.99 (US) I like to think that most good ideas occur while talking and eating with friends, perhaps with a few notes jotted down on a...read more
ROBERT J. SUDERMAN. Re-imagining The Church: Implications of Being a People in the World. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016. Pp. Xv + 242. $31.00 (U.S.) Robert “Jack” Suderman, over a lifetime of service to the Kingdom of God in different capacities, has written many papers addressing the life of...read more
In a series of six novels, author Ken R. Abell weaves an imaginative and interesting tale set in the post-Civil War west with an ensemble cast of characters lead by Deacon Coburn. Deacon (his name, not his title) begins his life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania among the River Brethren. His quest...read more
AUGUST H. KONKEL. 1 & 2 Chronicles. Believers Church Bible Commentary. Harrisonburg, Virginia and Kitchener, Ontario: Herald Press, 2016. Pp. 517 $29.99 (USD) August H. Konkel’s 1 & 2 Chronicles, in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series, begins with an introduction describing Chronicles as an approach to historiography, and the...read more
DAVID L. WEAVER-ZERCHER. Martyrs Mirror: A Social History. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. 440. $49.95 (U.S.) David Weaver-Zercher completed an impressive undertaking in writing Martyrs Mirror: A Social History: a three-part book detailing Anabaptist history and the significance of a book dedicated to describing the stories of martyrs...read more
MARY ANN LOEWEN. Sons and Mothers: Stories from Mennonite Men. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. University of Regina Press, 2015. pp. 144. $17.61 (CDN.) Sons and Mothers: Stories from Mennonite Men is a compilation of written reflections by 13 academic and artistic Canadian men about their mothers. The editor, Mary Ann Loewen,...read more