Articles : Katie Funk Wiebe
June 18, 2007 issue
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Facing supernatural evil
On my desk is Even the Demons Submit: Continuing Jesus’ Ministry of Deliverance, edited by Loren L. Johns and James R. Krabill, co-published by the Institute of Mennonite Studies and Herald Press, 2006, 214 pages, $15.95.
In 1991, my Aunt Neta Janzen Block, a survivor of 11 years in forced labor in Siberia, and then living in Moscow, wrote me the story of her life. She related her conversion experience in the Sagradowka colony in Ukraine before World War I as the result of an experience of demon possession involving several young men. With blood signatures, they sold their souls to the devil in exchange for favors.
March 19, 2007 issue
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Encouragement for widowed
On my desk is Grief and Sexuality: Life After Losing a Spouse by Rachel Nafziger Hartzler, published by Herald Press, 2006, $14.99.
Jan. 22, 2007 issue
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Scripture and life’s stories
On my desk is Telling Our Stories: Personal Accounts of Engagement with Scripture, edited by Ray Gingerich and Earl Zimmerman, published by Cascadia Publishing House, 2006, 288 pages, $21.95.
Nov. 27, 2006 issue
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A modern-day faith pilgrim
On my desk is Between Worlds: Reflections of a Soviet-Born Canadian Mennonite by Harry Loewen, published by Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ont., 2006, 358 pages, $31.50.
July 24, 2006 issue
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People with a musical soul
On my desk is Sound in the Land: Essays on Mennonites and Music, edited by Maureen Epp and Carol Anne Weaver, published by Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ont., 220 pages, 2005.
May 22, 2006 issue
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Grace to overcome secrecy
On my desk is Touched by Grace: From Secrecy to New Life by Ann Showalter, published by DreamSeeker Books, 2006, 196 pages, $13.95.
April 10, 2006 issue
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Writers strain against limits
On my desk is Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing, by Jeff Gundy, published by Cascadia Publishing House, 2005, 296 pages, $22.95.
Jan. 23, 2006 issue
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A progressive family’s story
On my desk is Without the Loss of One: The Story of Nevin and Esther Bender and Its Implications for the Church Today, by Don, Mildred and Titus Bender, published by Dreamseeker Books, Telford, Pa., 2005, 274 pages, $15.95.
Oct. 24, 2005 issue
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Shedding Old Order burden
On my desk is Rolling Down Black Stockings: A Passage Out of the Old Order Mennonite Religion by Esther Royer Ayers, published by Kent State University Press, 2005, 172 pages, $25.
Aug. 29, 2005 issue
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Russian Mennonites profiled
On my desk is An Introduction to the Russian Mennonites by Wally Kroeker, published by Good Books, 2005, 128 pages, $7.95.
July 11, 2005 issue
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Quilts eased war suffering
On my desk is Passing the Comfort: The War, the Quilts, and the Women Who Made a Difference, by An Keuning-Tichelaar and Lynn Kaplanian-Buller, published by Good Books, 2005, $14.95.
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