Religion, Christianity, Mennonite
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Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders
A Century of Stories from Mexico's Mennonite Villages by Abigail Carl-Klassen
In Chihuahua, Mexico, the Tres Culturas region is a place where Mennonite, Mestizo, and Indigenous Rarámuri people live, forming a crossroad of traditions, languages, and ways of living. A landscape of convergence and divergence, breaking and...
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Reflecting Shekinah
Feminine Images of the Divine and Women's Sense of Self by Barbara R Wieler
In Reflecting Shekinah: Feminine Images of the Divine and Women’s Sense of Self, Barbara Wieler reflects on the nature and significance of the relationship between feminine images of the Divine and the sense of self for women from the 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...