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Leading off this edition is a short semi-biographical piece by Jan Engle Lewis based on her interviews a number of years ago with Anna Taylor Grissinger and Mabel Frey Hensel, who were missionary children in the early days of Brethren in Christ missions in Africa. Anna and Mabel’s reflections suggest...read more
Author’s Note: On April 24 and 25, 2004, I interviewed Anna Taylor Grissinger and Mabel Frey Hensel, both widows in their early nineties, in their homes at Messiah Village, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. They had been missionary kids, the children of pioneer missionaries to Africa, Myron and Adda Taylor and Harvey and...read more
ERVIN R. STUTZMAN. Jacob’s Choice: Return to Northkill (Book 1). Harrisonburg, Va.: Herald Press, 2014. Pp. 297. $14.99 (U.S.). Jacob’s Choice: Return to Northkill is a fictional retelling of the life of Amish farmer Jacob Hochstetler caught up in the events of the colonial French and Indian war (1754-1763). Jacob...read more
GEORGE R. BRUNK III. Galatians. Believers Church Bible Commentary. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2015. Pp. 336. $29.99 (U.S.). Brunk states in his introduction that he wrote his commentary not for New Testament specialists but with “the practical purpose of serving the church and confessional interests” (p. 15). He addresses...read more
WENDY URBAN-MEAD. The Gender of Piety: Family, Faith, And Colonial Rule In Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015. Pp. 324. $32.95 The Gender of Piety is a compelling biographical history of six carefully selected Ndebele personalities related to the Brethren in Christ Church (or BICC, as the church...read more