Religion, Christianity, Mennonite
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Mennonite to Mainstream
Abandoning the Old Colony and Growing Up in Rural Canada by Judy Ann
In a family history that stretches back five hundred years, Judy introduces readers to life under Old Colony Mennonite rules as experienced by her parents and grandparents in rural Canada and Mexico. Despite this history, it took Judy’s family...
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Me and My House
by Dick Derksen
Mennonites seemed to need to move somewhere every century, and ME AND MY HOUSE is almost a travelog, as it takes us from one part of Europe to another many kilometres away. As it moves from one generation to another, the nature of life in each...
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Letters From Home
The Elizabeth and Heinrich Thiessen Story by Sandra Froese Callahan
War, revolution, and the consolidation of Soviet power during the 1920s prompted 21,000 Mennonites to leave the Soviet Union for Canada. Among them were Isaac and John Thiessen. Left behind was their beloved family: three siblings and parents,...
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Not My Kind of Mennonite
by Maria Moore
On a cold and snowy night in January 1972, George Peters was shot by his brother-in-law and left to die on a back road in rural Ontario. The investigation and trial of his murder would tell a story that compelled a jury to let his killer walk...
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Sehnsucht: The Story of Grisch.
A Life in Letters by Lorraine Loewen Isaak
In my early years, I felt sadness in my Grandpa Grisch; it seemed to cling to him. What feelings could not do, however, was give me greater understanding into his inner world. Unknown to me, family had stored close to one hundred letters for over...
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Choose You This Day
by Dick Derksen
The Derksen family has come to Wuestenfelde as refugees from Friesland, Mennonites that have fled the persecution of all Anabaptists, primarily due to the debacle of their takeover of Muenster in north Germany. Misguided followers of Melchior...
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The Pastor-Congregation Duet
by Gary Harder
In a time of shifting worldviews and changing expectations of the church, how does a pastor navigate the challenges, joys, and pains of ministry? How does a church support, love, and hold accountable its pastoral leaders? The key lies in the...
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Canadian Prairie Mennonite Ministers' Use of Scripture
1874-1977 by Donald Stoesz
A chance discovery of a log book of sermons by grand-uncle and Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference minister Cornelius G. Stoesz led Donald Stoesz on a fifteen-year odyssey in which he identified four hundred and fifty-seven Scripture texts...
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Living on the Edge of the Edge
Letters to a Younger Colleague by Ruth Elizabeth Krall and Lisa Schirch, PhD
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...
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Saigon to Singers Glen
One Hundred Moments in the Life of a Mennonite Farm Boy by Jim Bowman
On a global yet intimate scale, this thoughtful memoir invites you to explore a life well lived. Get to know Jim Bowman: he grew up in a conservative Mennonite farm family in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, came of age in the war-torn streets...
