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European Mennonite Voluntary Service: Youth Idealism in Post-World War II Europe, Calvin W. Redekop (Summer 2010). “One of the most dynamic Mennonite movements since 1945 has been youth-oriented voluntary service. It is especially important for North Americans to understand the European part of this story. Redekop is an exceptional quide. —John A. Lapp, Executive Secretary Emeritus, Mennonite Central Committee

The Singing Junk-Man, Truman H. Brunk (DSB, summer 2010). A sequel to That Amazing Junk-Man, The Singing Junk-Man is Brunk's second book drawing on his life and ministry. A natural story-teller, Brunk draws upon a lifetime of personal experiences with many age groups, and people from a wide variety of backgrounds. These are stories of humor, grace, and hope.

Face to Face: A Poetry Collection, Julie Cadwallader-Staub (DSB, summer 2010). “I read a lot of poetry, but rarely do I read poems so elegant in their simplicity, so profound in their humanity. I read many accounts of great love and great loss, but rarely do I see suffering explored as honestly and hopefully as it is here. The faith that shines through these poems—so powerfully that it renews the reader’s faith—is neither vague nor pious. It is bone-deep faith, a phrase that stands in paradoxical tension with the fact that bone cancer took Julie Cadwallader-Staub’s beloved Warren from her and their children, leading to this painful and redemptive journey in language and life.” —Parker J. Palmer, author of A Hidden Wholeness, of Let Your Life Speak, and of The Courage to Teach

Diary of a Kidnapped Colombian Governor: A Journey Toward Nonviolent Transformation, Guillermo Gaviria Correa (spring 2010), ed. James F. S. Amstutz, trans. Hugo and and Norma Zorilla. The dramatic rescue and release of Colombia hostage Ingrid Betancourt on July 2, 2008, riveted the world's attention on this South American country. Another 2002 kidnapping victim was the governor of Antioquia, Guillermo Gaviria Correa. Little known is his embrace of nonviolence as a political strategy—a strategy that led to his capture by the FARC and his tragic death during a failed rescue attempt in 2003. Is a non-killing society possible? Here is the story of how Governor Guillermo Gaviria of the state of Antioquia, in Colombia, paid with his life for taking this question seriously and modeling nonviolent leadership and love.

Peace Be with You: Christ's Benedication amid Violent Empires, ed. Sharon L. Baker and Michael Hardin (spring 2010). Is it the church's role to sustain cultures and empires? Or should churches take a prophetic stand in relation to the human situation? Can the church both stand for justice and continue in the way of peace? This book offers proposals for those who want to carry forth Christ's benediction of peace. Authors include Brian McLaren, Craig A. Carter, Sharon L. Baker, Andy Alexis-Baker, Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman, Ted Grimsrud, Richard T. Hughes, B. Keith Putt, Jim S. Amstutz, Anthony Siegrist, Jean F. Risley, David B. Miller, Reta Halteman Finger, Jonathan Sauder.

Storage Issues: Poems, 1998-2008, Suzanne Kay Miller (DSB, spring 2010). Storage Issues pictures an individual wandering through the remains of communal life. These personal lyric and narrative poems search for meaning in the background, events, and concerns of one Mennonite woman\rquote s existence. The poems invoke archetypal help and seek elemental order, but they also accept the changing world.

At Powerline and Diamond Hill: Unexpected Intersections of Life and Work, a memoir by Lee Snyder (DSB, 2010). This story, which begins with a place—a farm and a church—represents a personal journey of discovery; an attempt to uncover those pivotal forces which are never fully understood in constructing a life. . . . At the center of it all is the timeless present worked out through everyday rhythms of hunger and fullness, of sun, wind and rain, of light and darkness, of inexorable and unreasoned joy, of discontent and gratitude. —Lee Snyder, in the Preface

An American in Persia: A Pilgrimage to Iran, Richard A. Kauffman (spring 2010), who tells stories of his encounters with Iranians, their culture and politics, to give witness to ways walls can break down when the stories, culture, and history of others are attended to. The image that many people in the West have of Iran is of a country run by radical Muslim clerics who support terrorism in the Middle East and are determined to build nuclear weapons that will pose a threat to Israel and beyond. This is only part of the reality. Determined to get a fuller picture, Kauffman traveled to Iran as a journalist in 2008. What surprised him was how many total strangers approached him and his fellow travelers on the street . They showed the kind of hospitality for which Middle Eastern culture is known. Kauffman is hopeful that Americans and Iranians aren't doomed to be enemies and that mutual understanding is possible between Christians and Shi'a Muslims.

Roots and Branches: A Narrative History of the Amish and Mennonites in the Southeast United States, 1892-1992, volume 1, Roots, Martin W. Lehman (winter 2010). This book tells the story of Southeast Mennonite Conference, a diverse Mennonite denominational body that, from its inception, included small churches rooted in missions and larger congregations of Sarasota begun by Mennonites who moved south for sunshine and business opportunities. Roots and Branches recounts decade by decade the century-long history of Amish and Mennonites in the Southeast United States. With gentle candor Lehman, storyteller as well as historian, examines southeast Mennonites' clashes of conscience as their subculture was challenged by the diverse cultures of the people they sought to serve.

A Mennonite Woman: Exploring Spiritual Life and Identity, Dawn Ruth Nelson (winter 2010). "My grandmother was named Susan Alderfer Ruth. She was born in 1909 and died in 2005. In those years, in an area just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she led a life representative of what a certain kind of Mennonite spirituality was then and some Amish spirituality remains today. In 2001, I decided to talk to her and determine what formed her spiritually. I felt I could generalize from her life—discover practices in her life that would help me get at the core of Mennonite spirituality and spiritual formation in the twentieth century." —Dawn Ruth Nelson, in Chapter 1

Continuing the Journey: The Geography of Our Faith, ed. Nancy V. Lee, ACRS Memoirs 2 (Nov. 2009). Some stories are boldly told, others with a measure of reticence. Some are scholarly, many informal. There is no one road ‘most traveled’ in these memoirs, no one pattern. . . . Among the riches you can claim in this book are the ways these thinkers dealt with change in the Mennonite church, change in themselves, and change in society." —Katie Funk Wiebe

Making Sense of the Journey: The Geography of Our Faith, Cascadia edition, ed. Robert Lee Nancy V. Lee, ACRS Memoirs 1 (Dec. 2009). The Mennonite writers of this book (which preceded Continuing the Journey, see above) were Depression-era babies who amid experiencing World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, and the Cold wars, helped Eastern Mennonite College (now University) and North American Mennonites develop more global perspectives and commitments. Authors include Esther K. Augsburger, Myron S. Augsburger, Titus W. Bender, James R. Bomberger, Gerald R. Brunk, Ray Gingerich, Samuel L. Horst, Albert N. Keim, C. Norman Kraus, Nancy V. Lee, Harold D. Lehman, John R. Martin, Paul Peachey, Calvin W. Redekop, Calvin E. Shenk. "Life is a mystery, and the best memoirs reflect that mystery. Good lives are those which bring hope and courage in the midst of that mystery. This book reflects that struggle," says Albert N. Keim, in the Introduction This volume, a Cascadia republication of the original Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society edition, is copublished with ACRS as well as Herald Press.

Miracle Temple, poems by Esther Stenson, DreamSeeker Poetry Series 6 (DSB, 2009). "Stenson’s structure opens up these poems, allowing Amelia's voice to be sustained and her story to come through clearly, yet Stenson’s own voice and perspective establish themselves in the second part of the book. A beautiful and worthwhile book." —Jeff Gundy

Ask Third Way Café: 50 Common and Quirky Questions About Mennonites, Jodi Nisly Hertzler (Autumn 2009). "Some of Hertzler’s answers are little tweets while others flow in succinct paragraphs, but regardless of length, they quickly capture Mennonite views on many things." —Donald B. Kraybill, in the Foreword

A School on the Prairie: A Centennial History of Hesston College, 1909-2009, John Sharp (Autumn 2009). "Brimming with personalities, landscape, dreams, and issues, this account of what for a decade was the largest ‘Old’ Mennonite college vividly connects the dots in a century-spanning picture. —John. L. Ruth

Theology as if Jesus Matters: An Introduction to Christianity's Main Convictions, Ted Grimsrud (Autumn 2009).

Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for a Nonviolent Church, Gerald J. Mast and J. Denny Weaver (Summer 2009). "I've been reading with interest the important work being done by Denny Weaver and others on violence in relation to our understandings of God, atonement, and eschatology. I've also been watching, with joy, the growing rediscovery of the nonviolent heritage of the Radical Reformation. So I enthusiastically await the release of Defenseless Christianity." —Brian D. McLaren, Author/Activist (brianmclaren.net)

Mutual Treasure: Seeking Better Ways for Christians and Culture to Converse, ed. Harold Heie and Michael A. King (Spring/Summer 2009). Rejecting both withdrawal from culture and confrontational approaches to culture, this book calls for a better way—engaging others by coming alongside them, building relationships of mutual trust. The effectiveness of this better way is illustrated by means of eight actual case studies in which Christians have redemptively engaged others in the areas of politics, environmental public policy, film production, the academy of scholars, church discussions of homosexuality, conflict transformation, and interfaith dialogue.

A Hundred Camels: A Mission Doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial in Somalia, Gerald L. Miller with Shari Miller Wagner (DSB, Spring 2009).

You Never Gave Me a Name: One Mennonite Woman's Story, Katie Funk Wiebe (DSB, Spring/Summer 2009). "But I’m not just interested in my family roots experience of writing this autobiography has been an invigorating highlight of my life as I reviewed the past, and found new understandings of my roots, early environment, and their contribution to the making of Katie Funk Wiebe, author of many books and other writings. Other girls could be Kay, Kae, Katherine, Kathryn, Kathleen, Kaylene, and Kathy. The name Katie might have been the name of a peasant in the Ukraine. Now it is my name. I wear it proudly." —Katie Funk Wiebe, in the Preface

A Persistent Voice: Marian Franz and Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation, Marian Franz with Tim Godshall (Spring 2009). "Marian Franz had the intellectual vision and political courage to seek to change the conventional wisdom. Her gentle daring and humble boldness live on in these powerful essays." —Ronald J. Sider, President, Evangelicals for Social Action

Long After I'm Gone: A Father-Daughter Memoir, Deborah Good with Nelson Good (DSB, Winter 2009). In this unique and compelling memoir, the voice of a well-loved father intertwines with that of his twenty-four-year-old daughter, as he fights the ravages of a cancer that eventually takes his life.

Like Those Who Dream: Sermons for Salford Mennonite Church and Beyond, James C. Longacre (Winter 2009). "We who listened for fifteen years will easily recall a favorite phrase, the themes of the faith. . . . Next to that word came the repeated reminder that we were dealing with a 'text.' It was Jim’s joy to let the ancient Word speak. He reads the letter carefully, but listens beyond it to the canon-broad 'music' of the Scriptures. What was humorously said of an old Franconia bishop—'He had one text—the whole Bible'—could be said in appreciation of Jim’s range. A further compliment to the same rustic church servant applies equally to Jim’s preaching: Er is’ bei’m Watt gebliwwe—'He stuck by the Word.'" —John L. Ruth, in the Introduction

118 Days: Christian Peacemaker Teams Held Hostage in Iraq, ed. Tricia Gates Bown, copublished with Christian Peacemaker Teams (DSB, Winter 2009). In November 26, 2005, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) members Tom Fox and Jim Loney along with delegation members Norman Kember and Harmeet Sooden were kidnapped in Iraq. Tom Fox was killed on March 9, 2006. 118 Days tells their story. "God created us to form the human family. The Christian Peacemakers went to Iraq to help build that family. They are an example for Christians everywhere. . . ." —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The Mill Grinds Fine: Collected Poems, Helen Wade Alderfer (DSB, Winter 2009). I felt that a great, rich body of a life fully lived has just been hinted at—knew that I wanted to keep the book handy so that I could open it again soon, and often." —Ann Hostetler, Center for Mennonite Writing

Peace to War: Shifting Allegiances in the Assemblies of God, Paul Alexander, C. Henry Smith Series 9 (Winter 2009). “The first time I read this manuscript it shocked me. It still shocked me when I read this final, revised version a few years later. The antiwar, Christian, pacifist sentiments of the Assemblies of God that Paul Alexander describes . . . juxtaposed in close proximity to their pro-war and anti-pacifist passion and identification with America . . . is simply striking. It should get any reader’s attention. The plot line of Peace to War exposes the transition from one to the other of these contradictory stances within the space of three or four short decades." —J. Denny Weaver, in the C. Henry Smith Series Editor's Foreword.

Releases 2008 and earlier

Loving Enemies: A Manual for Ordinary People, Randy and Joyce Klassen (Autumn 2008). "One cannot read Loving Enemies without examining one's own attitude and actions in connection with the stated goals of nonviolence and universal world peace. While some readers will consider the authors naïve, or at best unrealistic, one cannot deny the truth of the global need for a more peaceful world."—Lou Perry, President Emeritus, Whitman College

The Coat Is Thin, poems by Leonard Neufeld, DreamSeeker Poetry Series 5 (DSB, Autumn 2008).

The Work of Jesus Christ in Anabaptist Perspective: Essays in Honor of J. Denny Weaver, ed. Alain Epp Weaver and Gerald J. Mast (Spring 2008). "Running through many of these essays are issues and questions familiar to readers of J. Denny Weaver’s theological work: the role of language and narrative in the work of salvation, the power of the resurrection over the forces of sin and death, interconnections between Christology and ecclesiology, and the relationship between the body of Christ and the body of the world. The book will no doubt be responsible for many contentious conversations, since it embodies the conflicted and controversial theological terrain J. Denny Weaver takes great delight in exploring together with his interlocutors." —Gerald J. Mast, in the Introduction

A Usable Past? Living Vocationally at the Margins, Paul Peachey (Winter 2008). "It will take more time to work out the deep theological issues with which Paul Peachey has grappled throughout his life and which he reflects in this work. Perhaps in God’s providence his work of creation and salvation are closer together than Luther thought. In any case he certainly was correct that those who would follow the path of Christ in reuniting both are too few in numbers. Paul, I feel, is one—a man before his time." --George F. McLean, Director, Center for the Study of Culture and Values The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., in the Foreword

Stumbling Toward a Genuine Conversation on Homosexuality, ed. Michael A. King (Autumn 2007). "So we stumble toward genuine conversation, toward the jazz hall, toward a Mennonite Church USA able at the same time to stand on the teachings it discerns for this era yet not just tolerate but actively welcome faithful dissent. Will we reach our destination? No time soon, I’d guess. In the end I don’t know how all the instruments could play together. I suspect it’s impossible. So why even work at what may never come to pass?" --Michael A. King, in the Introduction

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