20 Most Asked Questions About the Amish & Mennonites (People's Place Book, No 1)
by Merle Good
from Good Books
Explore the questions most people have about the Amish and Mennonites.
Just Policing, Not War: An Alternative Response to World Violence
from Liturgical Press
Who Are the Anabaptists: Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites
by Donald B. Kraybill
from Herald Press
Cast a Blue Shadow (Ohio Amish Mystery Series #4)
by P. L. Gaus
from Ohio University Press
After the first blizzard of an early winter, a Mennonite college girl with a troubled past appears curled up and bloodied outside the offce of her childhood psychiatrist. Mute for many years as a child, Martha Lehman is again not talking. That same morning, the wealthy mother of Martha’s boyfriend is found murdered in her mansion in the country west of Millersburg, Ohio. Professor Mi chael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Robertson begin an investigation that, in the space of a single weekend, implicates Martha, threatens to tear apart the fabric of Millersburg College, pits one professor against another, and brings Caroline Branden near to a breaking point over the girl she once tried so fervently to help and who now seems determined to let no one help her at all. As Martha struggles to understand her enigmatic past and as Professor Branden wrestles with the murder of the college 6's leading benefactor, the real story of Martha Lehman emerges—born Amish, converted to Mennonite, and drawn to the English world for the worst of reasons. In Cast a Blue Shadow, his fourth Ohio Amish Mystery, P. L. Gaus continues to explore the thresholds of culture and faith among the Amish sects and their English neighbors of northern Ohio. Through interwoven plots, Gaus portrays these ways of life at odds with one another despite their seeming harmony. Coupling those clashes with the petty and desperate scufflings of academic politics, Gaus spins a suspenseful tale of power, pride, and tested faith. With Cast a Blue Shadow, Professors Branden and Gaus have done it again.
The Journey Toward Reconciliation
by John Paul Lederach
from Herald Press
Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice
by John D. Roth
from Herald Press
Ask any person randomly on the sidewalk what they know about the Mennonites and chances are their answer will include Mormons, black clothes and buggies, or general confusion. This short, engaging book gives a brief account of what Mennonites believe. From the beginnings of the Anabaptist (or Mennonite) movement in the 16th-century, to biblical interpretation, baptism, understandings of the church, ethics, and the complex question of denominationalism, John D. Roth provides a solid framework for on-going conversations about faithful discipleship in the Mennonite church today.
What We Believe Together: Exploring the "Shared Convictions" of Anabaptist-related Churches
by Alfred Neufeld
from Good Books
Today, more than 1.5 million Christians are members of Mennonite-related churches. They are scattered in 67 countries. They trace their history to the Anabaptist movement, a part of the 16th century Radical Reformation in Europe.
So what beliefs do these heirs of the free-church movement, only loosely connected to each other, hold in common today?
This first-of-its-kind book explores seven convictions shared by these churches, now on six continents, who have always insisted that what they believe will be reflected in how they live.
Mennonite World Conference commissioned this project and asked theologian and teacher Alfred Neufeld, of Asunción, Paraguay, to write this commentary on the shared convictions. In a rich and readable style, he fills out their meaning and significance, drawing upon Old and New Testament Scriptures, as well as examples and stories from history and current church life around the world. Very engaging!
Writing as a member from the Southern Hemisphere, Neufeld brings a fresh view to a movement that for 400- plus years was active primarily in Europe and North America (the majority of the members now live in the Global South).
This book offers a fresh and up-to-date look at the core beliefs, and the practices that have developed from them, held by Mennonites-related groups around the world today.
An Introduction to Mennonite History: A Popular History of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites
by Cornelius J. Dyck
from Herald Press
Lost Sons
by Judy Clemens
from Herald Pr
Detective Stan Windemere's son, a sailor in the U.S. Navy, disappears in the frozen tundra of Russia, and Stan finds himself unable to focus on his job. He soon learns of another lost son, Clayton Kratz, who also disappeared in Russia in 1920. Stan dives into this mystery and prepares for the truth that his own son, like Kratz, may never come home.
Through Fire & Water: An Overview of Mennonite History
by Harry Loewen
from Herald Press
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