Articles : Marlin Jeschke
Aug. 6, 2012 issue
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The Amish for sale
“Amish Country tourism attracts more than 19 million people every year and generates over $2 billion of economic benefit to the areas surrounding the three largest Amish settlements [of] Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio.” So says Susan Trollinger in Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins, 2012). Her book is not about statistics, however, but about the meaning of this tourism.
In general, Trollinger says, tourists to Amish country are not interested in a meaningful encounter with the Amish. Citing a study by Thomas Meyers of Goshen College, based on 700 interviews, Trollinger says tourists “do not want to talk to the Amish. They have no desire to get to know Amish people. They are not even especially interested in learning about the Amish. Instead, they just want to shop.”
April 16, 2012 issue
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Global series turns its focus to Asia
Sponsored by Mennonite World Conference, this is the fourth volume to be published in a five-volume series on the history of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches around the world. The ones on Africa, Latin America and Europe are already out. The last volume on North America is forthcoming.
Dec. 5, 2011 issue
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Finding grace in prison life
On my desk is Glimpses of Grace: Reflections of a Prison Chaplain by Donald Stoesz, published by Friesen Press, Victoria, B.C., 2010, 184 pages, $26.
Sept. 19, 2011 issue
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Jesus’ peace without force
On my desk is The Jesus Factor in Peacemaking by C. Norman Kraus, published by Cascadia, 2011, 126 pages, $12.95.
March 21, 2011 issue
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Line where faiths compete
On my desk is The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold, published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2010, 336 pages, $27.
Jan. 10, 2011 issue
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Anabaptists get condensed
On my desk is Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites and Mennonites by Donald B. Kraybill, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, 302 pages, $35.
Nov. 29, 2010 issue
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God doesn’t demand victims
On my desk is The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus, by Michael Hardin, published by JDL Press, 2010, 318 pages, $17.95.
June 7, 2010 issue
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16 lives on journeys of faith
On my desk is Continuing the Journey: The Geography of Our Faith — Mennonite Stories Integrating Faith and Life and the World of Thought, edited by Nancy V. Lee, published by Cascadia, 2009, 404 pages, $23.95.
March 29, 2010 issue
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Ethicist defined his church
On my desk is War, Peace, and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Social Ethics by Theron F. Schlabach, published by Herald Press, 2009, 724 pages, $39.99.
Jan. 4, 2010 issue
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Making sense of Revelation
On my desk is Revelation: Making Sense of Its Message in the 21st Century by John M. Miller, published by Leola Publisher (2255 New Holland Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601, phone 717-798-3663, e-mail LeolaPublisher@comcast.net), 2009, $21.97.
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