Articles : On My Desk by Lapp
March 19, 2012 issue
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Lapp
Mission of mercy after war
On my desk is Your Son and Brother, Sol: Letters from Solomon E. Yoder While Serving with the American Friends Service Committee in Post-World War I Europe, edited by S. Duane Kauffman, published by the editor at Perkasie, Pa., 262 pages, 2011, $23.
This is an important book. It illustrates a significant moment in organizing Mennonite energies for relief and reconstruction, which became embedded in Mennonite Central Committee. It illustrates the profound sense of applied Christianity so central to the Mennonite tradition.
March 5, 2012 issue
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Church education defended
On my desk is Teaching That Transforms: Why Anabaptist Mennonite Education Matters by John D. Roth, published by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa., and Waterloo, Ont., 2011, 235 pages, $12.99.
Feb. 6, 2012 issue
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The uniqueness of Winnipeg
On my desk is At the Forks: Mennonites in Winnipeg by Leo Driedger, published by Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ont., 2010, 473 pages, $29.95.
Jan. 9, 2012 issue
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Life between East and West
On my desk is From the Oder to the Bitterroot: Memories of an Uncommon Life by Werner H. Will, published by the author at 3604 Kingbury Place, Missoula, MT 59808, 2011, 321 pages, $12 plus $2.50 postage.
Aug. 8, 2011 issue
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Worship in a secular time
On my desk is Worship and Mission After Christendom by Alan Kreider and Eleanor Kreider, published by Herald Press, 2011, 322 pages, $19.99.
June 6, 2011 issue
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Gentle, activist peacemaker
On my desk is Create Space for Peace: Forty Years of Peacemaking — Gene Stoltzfus, 1940-2010, edited by Dorothy Friesen and Marilen Abesamis, published by TriMark Press, Deerfield Beach, Fla., 255 pages, $16.95.
April 4, 2011 issue
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A struggle with militarism
On my desk is Mennonite German Soldiers: Nation, Religion and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-1880, by Mark Jantzen, published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, 370 pages, $38.
Feb. 14, 2011 issue
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MB story of going global
On my desk is Celebrating 150 Years: The Mennonite Brethren Church Around the World, edited by Abe J. Dueck, published by Pandora Press and Kindred Productions, 2010, 391 pages, $26.99.
Jan. 3, 2011 issue
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Benefits, costs of Amish faith
On my desk is The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-Zercher, published by Jossey-Boss, San Francisco, 2010, 267 pages, $24.95.
Sept. 27, 2010 issue
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The most dangerous book
On my desk is Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics and Devotion in the Book of Revelation by J. Nelson Kraybill, published by Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, Mich., 2010, 224 pages, $21.99.
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