Mennonite category: 136 books
Martyrs Mirror
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Approximately 2,500 Anabaptists were martyred in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. Their surviving brethren compiled stories of those who suffered and died for the faith into martyr books. The most historically and culturally significant of these, The Bloody Theater—more commonly...
Finding Father
Stories from Mennonite Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019
Finding Father is a collection of stories about Mennonite fathers by their daughters. Written by well-known and first-time writers, these stories illuminate the often close and sometimes troubling relationships found within this most precious bond. From battles over relationships and sexuality, to...
by Judy Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
“Our family thoroughly enjoyed your family story! We love to read and are very grateful for books with good moral and historical lessons. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” -This was written on a card received from a reader living in Pennsylvania. Many have said that it reads like a storybook....
The Naked Anabaptist
The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Anabaptist Christians have been around for almost 500 years. But what does Anabaptism look like when not clothed in Mennonite or Amish traditions? Writing from Great Britain, Stuart Murray peels back the layers to reveal the core components of Anabaptismand what they mean for faith in his context...
by Jonathan Dueck
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the contemporary 'worship wars' – conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide Protestants today – to be based on long-term in-person observation and interviews. It tells the story of the musical...
by Janelle Diller
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
It’s the Depression and it’s rural Kansas. For good measure, nature decides to throw in a Dust Bowl. It’s not the life Cat Peters would have chosen, but the young Mennonite girl doesn’t have much say in it.
Driven to the edge of bankruptcy by the relentless winds of the Dust Bowl, Cat's...
Quilts from two Valleys
Amish Quilts From The Big Valley-Mennonite Quilts From The Shenandoah Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Two hidden valleys-one in Pennsylvania, the other in Virginia-held vibrant communities and quilting traditions during the closing years of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century. How do the quilts made by the Amish and Mennonites in these tucked-away places compare? Includes photographs...
Mission without Conquest
An Alternative Missionary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Almost sixty years ago, the Mennonite missionary team working in the Argentine Chaco decided to look for ways to be effective in their ministry while being faithful to Jesus’ lifestyle and teaching. They left behind paternalistic models and “conquering” methods and were liberated from the mindset...
by Rachel T. Pellman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1981
Discover why so many Amish and Mennonites, committed to a simple life, make beautiful quilts. This book looks at quilting in plain communities and the possible origins of quilt patterns popular among the Amish and Mennonites. Why do so many Amish and Mennonites who are devoutly committed to a simple,...
Sunlight Through Dusty Windows
The Dorcas Smucker Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm—today. Newspaper columnist Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels while driving off the freeway, moving into the “thousand-story...
Plain Buggies
Amish, Mennonite, And Brethren Horse-Drawn Transportation. People's Place Book N
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Accessible in style, Plain Buggies presents the most complete work on the transportation modes of the "plain people" published to date. includes details on prices, styles, laws, stories. Why do 100,000 persons in North America refuse to drive cars for religious reasons? What are the main styles among...
by John Horsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
It is perhaps generally known that there is carried on, at the present time, an organized propaganda to persuade our people that certain restrictions, for which we as a church stand, are nothing more than unnecessary customs, commandments of men. In particular is this charge made in reference to the...
The Secret of the Strength
What Would the Anabaptists Tell This Generation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The above picture features an Anabaptist preacher of the 16th century, speaking to his audience in the fields...with the backdrop of a modern Anabaptist's material prosperity...
"We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard, said the apostles marching directly into persecution....
Living on the Edge of the Edge
Letters to a Younger Colleague
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
There are several divisive issues that separate Christian from Christian in the current century. One issue is the church’s management of clergy sexual abuses of children, teens and adults. A second is the issue of sexual gender orientation and church membership. Contemporary Christian denominations...