BOOK REVIEWS Elements of Faithful Writing. By Jean Janzen. Cornelius H. Wedel Historical Series, 13. North Newton, Kan.: Bethel College. Copublished with Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ont. 2004. Pp. 49. $9.50, U.S.; $11, Can. In Jean Janzen’s introduction to Elements of Faithful Writing, a book based on her Menno Simons lectures…
Everyday Mysteries: A Religious Life in the Real World KATHLEEN NORRIS* Writers and religious people take a bum rap as being ?other-worldly,? not grounded in the real world. But I have long considered that a convenient little fib. Ever since I encountered John Keats’s great poem ?Ode on a Grecian…
IN THIS ISSUE During the past fifty years, Mennonites in North America have participated in a literary renaissance unparalleled since the Dutch Golden Age in the seventeenth century. Today, as then, the flourishing of Mennonite literature has emerged against the backdrop of remarkable economic affluence and steady cultural assimilation. Today,…
Moving Beyond Charisma in Civil Rights Scholarship: Vincent Harding’s Sojourn with the Mennonites, 1958-1966 TOBIN MILLER SHEARER* Abstract: This essay traces the Mennonite sojourn of African-American pastor, scholar and activist Vincent Harding and examines his position in between the Civil Rights Movement and the Mennonite community. In 1963, the…
Contents of Volume LXXXII April 2008 Number Two In This Issue Moving Beyond Charisma in Civil Rights Scholarship: Vincent Harding’sSojourn with the Mennonites, 1958-1966 Tobin Miller Shearer The Weaverland Mennonite Schools and the Negotiation of an Old Order Identity Karen…
BOOK REVIEWS A Gentle Wind of God: The Influence of the East Africa Revival. By Richard K. MacMaster, with Donald R. Jacobs. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press. 2006. Pp. 404. $14.99, U.S.; $18.79, Can. A book on the ?reverse mission? of Africa to the Western world through the East Africa Revival,…
IN THIS ISSUE In his landmark book The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, From the Civil Rights Movement to Today (Basic Books, 2005), Charles Marsh argues that the earliest goal of the Civil Rights Movement was not merely to break down the walls of racial segregation but to…
Understanding the Amish in Twentieth-First Century America PAUL S. BOYER* Abstract: This essay examines Amish negotiations with modernity and society’s view of the Amish. Far from categorically rejecting the modern order, the Amish successfully participate in the larger economy and evaluate new technologies on the basis of their impact…
IN THIS ISSUE In the two decades spanning the movie "Witness" (1985)–which first introduced the Amish to a mass audience–and the dramatic story of Amish forgiveness following the Nickel Mines school shootings in 2006, the Amish have become a familiar feature in American popular culture. Yet that same familiarity has…
Contents of Volume LXXXII July 2008 Number Three In This Issue In Memoriam: Jean Séguy (1925-2007) Understanding the Amish in Twenty-First Century America Paul S. Boyer Who Are the Real Amish’: Rethinking Diversity and Identity Among a Separate People…
