Mennonite category: 136 books
Through Dust and Darkness
A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From childhood through college, Kroeker attended Christian schools...
Path of Thorns
Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, nearly one-third of all Soviet Mennonites – including more than half of all adult men – perished, while a large number were exiled to the east and the north by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Others fled westward on long treks, seeking refuge in Germany during the...
by Connie Braun
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir invites the reader to embark on a journey that traces the paths of ancestral memory over the steppes of the Russian empire to the valleys of Canada’s Fraser River. Connie Braun’s narrative continues where Sandra Birdsell’s historical fiction...
Quiet and Peaceable Life
People's Place Book No.2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
John L. Ruth, a Mennonite storyteller/historian, captures the spirit of Old Order Mennonite and Amish groups in his essays, along with photographs, poetry, and quotations. If the "plain people" of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns, we must consider sympathetically their...
Christ's Headship of the Church
According to Anabaptist Leaders Whose Followers Became Mennonites
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
When this work was at first undertaken the question of its publication was practically foreign to the mind of the author. Even now he feels that to make it most valuable to the average reader a careful rewriting would be advantageous. Much material was laid aside which ought to appear for the benefit...
by Harry Anthony Brunk
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
This reprint of History of Mennonites in Virginia is authorized by the children of Dr. Harry A. Brunk. This work represents the most extensive history of Mennonites in Virginia from 1727 to 1900 available today. This history takes us from the earliest days before Mennonites moved to the Shenandoah...
Introduction to Russian Mennonites
A Story Of Flights And Resettlements-- To Homelands In The Ukraine, The Chaco, T
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and...
Life Together in the Spirit
A Radical Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In this fresh approach to Christian spirituality, John Driver shows that the spirituality of the disciples and the early Christian church included every dimension of life. Grounded in the example of Jesus himself, this holistic approach to spirituality finds expression in the visible witness of the...
Widening the Circle
Experiments in Christian Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In the last half-century, a growing number of North Americans have been smitten with an Anabaptist-Mennonite vision of church and mission. Often coming from outside the Mennonite mainstream, they've formed communities with others of like mind and sought to live out their radical faith. But in the...
Diaspora in the Countryside
Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to...
Youth Ministry at a Crossroads
Tending to the Faith Formation of Mennonite Youth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Youth work isnt for the faint-heartedits tender and tough, requiring savvy to withstand the assault of erotic, self-centered, consume-at-any-cost allurements facing youth today. What you will find here is wisdom and encouragement from those who have dedicated themselves to Jesus-centered youth faith...
Through Fire and Water
An Overview of Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Through Fire and Water presents the Mennonite faith story within the sweep of church history. This engaging text uses stories of men and women, peasants and pastors, heroes and rascals, to trace the radical Reformation from sixteenth-century Europe to today's global Anabaptist family. Written in an...
The Waterloo Mennonites
A Community in Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The Waterloo Mennonites is truly a communal book: the substance treats the communal aspect of the Mennonite community in all its complexity, while the book itself came about through communal effort from the students and researchers assisting Fretz, the various organizations and individuals providing...
of this earth
A Mennonite Boyhood In The Boreal Forest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Rudy Wiebe has written award-winning fiction for decades. He is recognized as one of Canada's finest literary treasures. Twice he has received Canada's most prestigious prize for fiction writing: The Governor-General's Award (equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize for fiction). Now comes new recognition...