Articles : John A. Lapp
March 18 issue
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Testimonies of peace from Iraq
Last year two significant stories from Christian Peacemaker Teams’ work in Iraq were published. Both are wonderful testimonies of peacemakers who took risks and made sacrifices — even to the point of death — as acts of devotion to the nonviolent God.
Journalist Greg Barrett’s The Gospel of Rutba: War, Peace and the Good Samaritan Story in Iraq highlights a five-person CPT group in Baghdad in the fall and winter of 2002-03. When asked by the Iraq government to leave Baghdad, they drove in two vehicles to Amman, Jordan.
Dec. 10, 2012 issue
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Reimagining colonial beginnings
Sparse records survive about the first generation of 18th-century immigrants to Pennsylvania. Everett J. Thomas, editor of The Mennonite, has used well the limited records and general historical information to create a well-written, imaginative fictional account of his ancestor in “Penn’s Woods.”
June 11, 2012 issue
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From Muslim heritage, a Christian ambassador
Ahmed Haile, a Somali Christian, is a remarkable saint of our time. Just over a year ago he died after a valiant five-year struggle with cancer. He dictated this memoir during the last months of his life.
March 19, 2012 issue
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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.
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.
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