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The upside-down kingdom
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Professor Donald B Kraybill
"While this reader may not agree with all the author's practical applications of the Kingdom's values, she cannot help but find the book rich fare for self-examination".....Mary Lynne Rapien St. Anthony Messenger
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20 Most Asked Questions about the Amish & Mennonites
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Phyllis Pellman Good, Merle Good
Loss Forgiveness and Restoration.The Face of Christ illustration and the accompanying story that has changed lives all around the globe.First it is a truelife story of an advertising executive an artist and a pastor Joe Castillo and the way God changed him. It also tells of the many lives touched by this simple illustration.Done before a live ...
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When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking
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John Howard Yoder
Yoder provides a readable and provocative primer on the history, criteria, and application of Just War teaching in Christian churches.
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Amish Roots: A Treasury of History, Wisdom, and Lore
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John A Hostetler (Editor)
With more than 85,000 copies in print, this author has introduced his readers to the ways of America's plain folk. Now, in this book, he offers a very different--and even more intimate--view of life in the Amish world. It isn't the way of the Amish to write about themselves, but Hostetler has put together a delightful anthology in which they do ...
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Caring Enough to Forgive: True Forgiveness
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David Augsburger
It sees the real focus of forgiving not in individualistic release from guilt and proof of goodness, but in inter-personal reconciliation, wholeness and life together in Christian community.
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Real people : Amish and Mennonites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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A. Martha Denlinger
This revised edition of the popular book about the Mennonites and Amish in Lancaster County explains the beliefs and practices of both groups and answers many questions that visitors to Amish country often ask. New cover design and many new photos.
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Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments During the Reformation
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Professor Werner O Packull
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year "The publication of this volume is cause for celebration! The years of painstaking research in untold towns, cities, and libraries in Europe, as well as in North America, the empathy the author brought to the subject ...the skill evident in translating, especially technical ...
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Beyond Our Prayers: An Amazing Half Century of Church Growth in Ephiopia
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Nathan B Hege
The story of the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) in Ethiopia will hold a special niche in the annals of Mennonite history. In many ways, it repeats on the African continent the Anabaptist experience of the 16th century in Europe -- the emergence of a free church in a state-church society. Beyond Our Prayers by Nathan B. Hege tells two stories: (1) ...
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Our People: The Amish and Mennonites of Ohio
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Levi Miller
Who are the Amish? The Mennonites? Why do they think, believe, and live as they do? Why horses and buggies instead of cars? Why the plain clothing? Levi Miller answers such questions often asked about the Amish and Mennonites. He looks at their common roots within the Anabaptist tradition and explores their differences as well as similarities. ...
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Development to a Different Drummer: Anabaptist/Mennonite Experiences and Perspectives
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Richard A Yoder, Professor Calvin W Redekop, Vernon E Jantzi
The brief but heartfelt prayers in this whimsically illustrated book are the perfect compliment to any meal. Full of thanksgiving for the food we enjoy each day the simple prayers remember those who are less fortunate while celebrating the delicious nourishment we receive from the earth. A treasure for anyone who is grateful for all that they ...
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Why We Live in Community
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Eberhard Arnold
Everyone these days seems to be searching for community in one way or another - whether in the form of committed, nourishing relationships at home and at work, support networks, small groups, house churches - even cyberspace. But mention 'community' and many people literally go blank. They claim that they're not ready for the commitment such a ...
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Hutterite Society
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John A Hostetler
"Of hundreds of recorded attempts to establish communal societies in North America, the Hutterites are the only group that has managed not only to survive but to expand and prosper. Yet the members work without the incentive of private gain, and privileged positions are few. There are no extremely poor or wealthy persons among them, and ...
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John Smyth's Congregation: English Separatism, Mennonite Influence, and the Elect Nation
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James R Coggins
James R. Coggins analyzes the story of John Smyth's congregation as it wrestled with great theological questions of church and state, separation from the world, church polity, the role of women in the church, the meaning of the incarnation, the sovereignty of God alongside the free will of human beings, and the relationship of salvation, ...
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Creation and the Environment: An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World
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Calvin Wall Redekop (Editor)
Recent years have seen a shift in the belief that a religious world-view, specifically a Christian one, precludes a commitment to environmentalism. Whether as "stewards of God's creation" or champions of "environmental justice", church members have increasingly found that a strong pro-ecology stand on environmental issues is an integral component ...
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From the Ground Up: Mennonite Contributions to International Peacebuilding
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Cynthia Sampson (Editor), John Paul Lederach (Editor)
The US State Department, the US Institute of Peace, and other governmental agencies now recognize that religious leaders, transnational religious movements, and faith-based non-government organizations (NGOs) are central players in the post-Cold War era of ethnic and religious conflict. The Mennonites, through the Mennonite Central Committee and ...
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Reflecting on Faith in a Post-Christian Time
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Daniel Liechty, Benjamin Franklin
As the author views it, the desire for religious and spiritual commitment remains strong in North American and European post-Christian society, although now free to take many forms both inside and outside the churches. Drawing on the anthropological work of Ernest Becker, Liechty suggests that by understanding such desire as a result of our human ...
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Borders and Bridges: Mennonite Witness in a Religiously Diverse World
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Peter Dula (Editor), Alain Epp Weaver (Editor), Alain Epp Weaver
Conflicts today regularly break out along religious fault lines, whether in Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Sudan, or elsewhere. This volume contains case studies of ways in which Mennonites have contributed to peacebuilding and reconciliation in multi-religious contexts and offers a theological rationale for interfaith collaboration. (Christian)
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On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren
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Professor Donald B Kraybill, Carl F Bowman
Kraybill and Bowman explore the lives and mores of Old Order Anabaptists in this unique primer. Looking individually at Hutterites, Brethren, Amish, and Mennonites, they discuss the groups' respective histories and their methods for adapting to the technological and consumeristic culture that surrounds them.
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Disquiet in the Land: Cultural Conflict in American Mennonite Communities
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Fred Kniss
Mennonites have long referred to themselves as "The Quiet in the Land", but their actual historical experience has been marked by internal disquiet and contention over religious values and cultural practice. As Fred Kniss argues in his impressive study of Mennonite history, the story of this sectarian pacifist group is a story of conflict.
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The Hutterites : a study in prejudice
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David Flint
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The Hutterites in North America
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John Andrew Hostetler
This case study in cultural anthropology focuses on the day-to-day living patterns of the Hutterites, a German-dialect-speaking Christian sect whose members live communally in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The authors describe the Hutterite belief system and how it minimizes aggression and dissension, and protects the members ...
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Us Little People: Mennonite Children
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Carl Hiebert
Now in paperback: Photographs explores the simplicity and joy of life on conservative Mennonite farms supplemented by brief essays by the children who tell stories from their lives. A rare glimpse into a hidden society.
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20 Most Asked Questions about the Amish and Mennonites
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Merle Good, Phyllis Pellman Good
Now in audiobook! This recording makes available this very popular book (more than 300,000 copies sold). This easy-to-understand introduction to the customs, lifestyle, history, and beliefs of the Amish and Mennonites explores many subjects: education, weddings, the barnraising and mutual aid, dress, transportation, worldwide groups, etc. Are they ...
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Wisdom of the Plain Folk: 0songs and Prayers from the Amish and Mennonites
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Donna Leahy, Robert Leahy (Photographer)
This delightful collection of songs, prayers, and sayings embodies the values of family life, the rewards of hard work and craftsmanship, and the change of the seasons. Robert Leahy's striking color photographs capture the grace of a people who cherish simplicity as a means to a higher spiritual end.
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An Introduction to Mennonite History: A Popular History of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites
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Cornelius J Dyck
A history of Anabaptist-Mennonite thought from the sixteenth century to the present, with a description of Mennonite life and thought around the world today.
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