Melanie Zuercher

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.

Contributed Articles

500 years of resistance

July 10, 2025
Issue 2025

Jan. 21, 2025, was the day following the annual commemoration in the United States of the birthday (actually Jan. 15) of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as Donald Trump’s […]

20th Believers Church Conference

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, […]

20th Believers Church Conference

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 […]

Navigating hybrid identity

July 8, 2024
Issue 2024, vol. 78

Review of Eggtooth, Jesse Nathan (Unbound Edition Press, 2023) In his long-awaited first full collection, Jesse Nathan offers complexly nostalgic takes on a rural past, crafts intricate stanzas and rhyme […]

150 years in America

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 […]

Mennonite/s writing, and reading, and viewing

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 […]

Upcoming Conferences

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 […]

Book Notes: Recent publications

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); […]

A tribute issue

June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76

Sometimes you can plan these things in advance, but not in this case – this issue of Mennonite Life has turned out to have a theme of “tribute.” In the […]

History is everything: Remembering Keith Sprunger, 1935-2022

June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76

A partial timeline of Keith Sprunger’s life, teaching and scholarship March 16, 1935 – Keith LaVerne Sprunger born in Berne, Ind. 1957 – B.A., History, Wheaton (Ill.) College 1958 – […]

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