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This first edition of the journal for 2026 has a little something for almost everyone: biography/memoir/story, history and theology, practical ideas, and even something for the imagination. Leading off this edition is part one of Miriam (Mim) Stern’s memoir, Stirrings: Seventy-Plus Years in God’s Service. I have known Mim since...read more
My early years: 1927-1944 With each new stirring, we never know the impact on us as we grow. I was the last of nine children. I was born on May 20, 1927, in Chambersburg, PA. My parents were Adam and Nellie Ausherman Knepper. In birth order we were Robert, Paul,...read more
WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH. The Uses of Idolatry. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 504. U. S. $29.99 (paperback) We live in a secular age, a disenchanted world marked by a retreat of the spiritual and the rise of the rational. Luminaries from Max Weber to Charles Taylor have crafted...read more
Wendy J. Deichmann and Scott T. Kisker, ed., Heirs of Pietism in World Christianity: The 19th to the 21stCenturies. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2024. Pp. 180. The book Heirs of Pietism is the result of two new and welcomed endeavors. The first of these is a new conference on...read more
DARIUS L. SALTER. The Demise of the American Holiness Movement. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2020. Pp. 500. “May I know grace to embrace my own finite smallness in the arms of God’s infinite greatness” (Pete Greig). In 2009, I found myself serving in a booming youth ministry at a...read more
MARK JANTZEN and JOHN D. THIESSEN, eds. European Mennonites and the Holocaust. University of Toronto Press, 2021. $US 39.70 (paperback). I have been wanting to read about what went wrong with so many Christians in Nazi Germany. European Mennonites and the Holocaust, published in association with the United States Holocaust...read more