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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
GREGORY A. BOYD. The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church. Zondervan, 2007. 224 pages. $12.57 (U.S.) In addition to being a pastor, I am a politician and elected official. I consider my first and highest calling to be my spiritual calling...read more
E. MORRIS SIDER. Living Simply, Giving Generously: A Biography of David and Jeannie Byer. Grantham, PA: Brethren in Christ Historical Society, 2015. Pp. 208. $15.00 (U.S.) Unusual enough for the Historical Society, the subjects of this biography are not Brethren in Christ—officially, that is; but by background, principles, engagement, and...read more
MOLLY WORTHEN. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 352. $27.95 (US) Molly Worthen has written a wide ranging intellectual history of American evangelicalism that covers the last 70 years. She suggests that her goal is to create a “....read more