Brethren In Christ
History & Life
Vol. 44 · No. 1 · April 2021
Values of Heart
From the Editor
In 1999, I was one of 52 invited people from the US and Canada who gathered at Roxbury Camp with the goal of determining a set of core values for the Brethren in Christ Church. While I can’t remember a lot of the details from that Consultation on Core Values,...read more
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
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
Jesus of the East: Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded
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
Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity
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
Disciplined Hope: Prayer, Politics, and Resistance
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