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.
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Review of The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine (Herald Press, 2021) The missions began in California in the late 18th […]
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June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Review of Leaving Silence: Sexualized Violence, the Bible, and Standing with Survivors by Susannah Larry (Herald Press, 2021) Leaving Silence is foremost a book for male and female survivors of […]
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
Karen Reimer is a conceptual craft artist, a Kansas native who now lives in Chicago. She has degrees from Bethel College and the University of Chicago (MFA). From Feb. 9-April […]
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 […]
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 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
[Editor’s note: The following comes from presentations prepared and/or given by Rachel Pannabecker and Reinhild Janzen at Kauffman Museum during the spring semester of 2022.] Collecting for college and community […]
June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
Review of Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies, edited by John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller and John C. Yoder (Routledge, 2021) While the title of this book is dry, the […]
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June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
Review of Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation: A Missiological History of Mennonite Central Committee by Alain Epp Weaver (C.H. Wedel Series, Bethel College, 2020) It was a simple beginning. […]
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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