Melanie Zuercher, Newton, Kan., is a writer and editor for Marketing and Communications at Bethel College in North Newton, and the editor of Mennonite Life.
July 11, 2024
Issue 2024, vol. 78
“Radical Renewal? – Witnessing to a ‘New Heaven and a New Earth,’” 20th Believers Church Conference, June 1-4, 2025, Amsterdam Call for papers and workshops: https://believerschurchconference.com/call-for-papers Priority deadline: Oct. 1, […]
July 11, 2024
Issue 2024, vol. 78
“Radical Renewal? – Witnessing to a ‘New Heaven and a New Earth,’” 20th Believers Church Conference, June 1-4, 2025, Amsterdam, marking 500 years of Anabaptism; https://believerschurchconference.com/ A conference to celebrate […]
July 8, 2024
Issue 2024, vol. 78
The year 2024 marks 150 years since the majority of “Russian” or “Schweitzer” Mennonites immigrated to North America (mostly from present-day Poland and Ukraine). Several articles in this issue of […]
July 11, 2023
Issue 2023, vol. 77
As has been true pretty much since the 16th century, the phrase “Mennonite life” can conjure almost anything. However, in 2022-23, much of the rest of the world has been […]
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June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Thirty Years of Mennonite/s Writing IX: Responding to the Past, Creating the Future, Goshen (Ind.) College, Sept. 29-Oct. 2 This conference was originally planned for October 2020 to mark the […]
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
[Disclaimer: Not exhaustive] Books are available from their respective publishers or through online book vendors. Scruples on the Line trilogy by Evie Yoder Miller: #1, Shadows (Wipf & Stock, 2020); […]
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Review of Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of Michael “MJ” Sharp by Marshall V. King (Herald Press, 2022) Stories shape us, and the best ones help shape us into […]
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Review of Menno-Nightcaps: Cocktails Inspired by that Odd Ethno-Religious Group You Keep Mistaking for the Amish, Quakers or Mormons by S.L. Klassen (Touchwood Editions, 2021) This is a unique, fun […]
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Review of Unpardonable Sins by David Saul Bergman (Wipf & Stock Publishing, 2021) Appearing under a pen name that represents a collaboration between Daniel Born and the late Dale Suderman, […]
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Review of This Very Ground, This Crooked Affair: A Mennonite Homestead on Lenape Land, by John L. Ruth (Cascadia Publishing House, 2021) As a boy, one of the things that […]