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For eight months during 2021-2022, I participated in a Be the Bridge discussion group (addressing racial justice and reconciliation) and learned much more than I already knew about the history of African Americans and how white people treated them in discriminatory and often racist ways. Reading David Weaver-Zercher’s two-part series...read more
Introduction Around thirty years ago, much of the American Christian merchandise culture centered around four letters, WWJD. There were bracelets, books, t-shirts, and albums to buy with those four letters. In case you are unaware, WWJD is the acronym for the question first introduced in Charles Sheldon’s book from the...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
BETTY PRIES. The Space Between Us: Conversations about Transforming Conflict, Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2021. Pp. 230. $16.99 US “If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men” (Romans 12:18, NASB). I distinctly remember my mother quoting this verse to my siblings and me when...read more
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
KURT WILLEMS. Echoing Hope: How Humanity of Jesus Redeems Our Pain. Waterbrook. 2021. Pp. 226. $16.00US. In his book, Echoing Hope, Willems doesn’t just normalize pain but admits that all humanity experiences pain. He makes the claim that Christians experience pain, too. As obvious as this statement seems, many Christians...read more