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 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 […]
Read More about Life, art, complicity
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 […]
Read More about Book Notes: Recent publications
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 […]
Read More about Mennonite/s Writing IX; Mennonites and the Holocaust
July 8, 2020
Issue 2020, vol. 74
I have been involved with Mennonite Life for the past dozen or more years as a proofreader, editor, reviewer and essay writer, but this is my first issue as editor. […]
Read More about Mennonites and white supremacy
June 6, 2019
Issue 2019, vol. 73
Around seven or eight years ago when I began more frequently hearing the word “fracking,” I knew right away what it was, in impact if not method. Back in the […]
Read More about Review of Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields (University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018).