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
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 […]
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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); […]
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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 […]
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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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June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
Joining Voices Together is the biennial Worship and the Arts Symposium at Bethel College, North Newton, Kan., Nov. 5-8, 2021. The 2021 symposium will continue the celebration and exploration of […]
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June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
The Amish and Their Neighbors: A Multidisciplinary Conference will be held at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown (Pa.) College, June 2-4, 2022. This international conference will […]
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June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
Even before a pandemic shut down the so-called civilized world, Rachel Epp Buller, Bethel College professor of visual arts and design, who has been associated for the past number of […]
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June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
Review of Safehold: Poems by Ann Hostetler (Dreamseeker Poetry Series, Cascadia Publishing, 2018) Ann Hostetler’s second book of poetry was published three years ago. There is a poem about the […]
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June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
[Disclaimer: Not exhaustive] Books are available from their respective publishers or through online book vendors. Unpardonable Sins by David Saul Bergman (Wipf & Stock, 2021) David Saul Bergman is the […]
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July 9, 2020
Issue 2020, vol. 74
Mennonite/s Writing IX, the conference scheduled for October 2020 on the campus of Goshen (Ind.) College, has been postponed until 2021. The new dates are Oct. 7-10, 2021, at Goshen […]
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