Bridging Troubled Waters
Bridging Troubled Waters

Author: Paul Toews

Publisher: Kindred Productions (c) 1995

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780921788232

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The Mennonites, like many smaller immigrant religious groups, initially lived on the margins of North American society. The twentieth century brought them into the economic and cultural mainstream. That adaptation is the subject of the eleven essays and autobiographies of Bridging Troubled Waters. The essays are written by notable Mennonite scholars -- John H. Redekop, Ted Regehr, Katie Funk Wiebe, and others. The autobiographies by David Ewert, Waldo Hiebert, and J.B. Toews sparkle with insight into the transitions they and their people navigated during these momentous decades (1940-1960).

The Prairie People
The Prairie People

Author: Rod A. Janzen

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780874519310

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An eyewitness account of life among a unique group of Anabaptists.

Paul Tschetter
Paul Tschetter

Author: Rod Janzen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-05-04

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1725244632

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This volume is the biography of Paul Tschetter, a leading figure in late nineteenth-century Hutterite history, the "Hutterite Joshua," who convinced 1,250 Hutterites to leave Russia in the 1870s and resettle in Dakota Territory. Tschetter's life elucidates the way that an immigrant community fought for survival in a North American environment that stressed assimilation to radically different political, economic, cultural, and religious values. Janzen provides an in-depth narrative and analysis of Tschetter's influence based on diaries, sermons, hymns, interviews, and other primary materials.

The Radical Reformation
The Radical Reformation

Author: Michael G. Baylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-10-31

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521379489

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This 1991 collection of writings by early Reformation radicals illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking.

Junaluska
Junaluska

Author: Susan E. Keefe

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1476680175

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Junaluska is one of the oldest African American communities in western North Carolina and one of the few surviving today. After Emancipation, many former slaves in Watauga County became sharecroppers, were allowed to clear land and to keep a portion, or bought property outright, all in the segregated neighborhood on the hill overlooking the town of Boone, North Carolina. Land and home ownership have been crucial to the survival of this community, whose residents are closely interconnected as extended families and neighbors. Missionized by white Krimmer Mennonites in the early twentieth century, their church is one of a handful of African American Mennonite Brethren churches in the United States, and it provides one of the few avenues for leadership in the local black community. Susan Keefe has worked closely with members of the community in editing this book, which is based on three decades of participatory research. These life history narratives adapted from interviews with residents (born between 1885 and 1993) offer a people's history of the black experience in the southern mountains. Their stories provide a unique glimpse into the lives of African Americans in Appalachia during the 20th century--and a community determined to survive through the next.

Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition
Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition

Author: Benjamin W. Redekop

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0801876737

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Founded in part on a rejection of "worldly" power and the use of force, Anabaptism carried with it the promise of redemptive power. Yet the attempt to banish worldly power to the margins of the Christian community has been fraught with dilemmas, contradictions, and, at times, blatant abuses of authority. In this groundbreaking book, Benjamin W. Redekop, Calvin W. Redekop, and their coauthors draw on classic and contemporary thinking to confront the issue of power and authority in the Anabaptist-Mennonite community. From the power relationships of the sixteenth-century Peasants' War to issues of contemporary sexuality, the topics of Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition are sure to interest a wide audience. Contributors: Stephen C. Ainlay, College of the Holy Cross • J. Lawrence Burkholder, President Emeritus, Goshen College • Lydia Neufeld Harder, Toronto School of Theology • Joel Hartman, University of Missouri • Jacob A. Loewen, missionary, retired • Dorothy Yoder Nyce, Writer and former Assistant Professor, Goshen College • Lynda Nyce, Bluffton College • Wesley Prieb (deceased), former dean, Tabor College • Benjamin W. Redekop, Kettering University • Calvin W. Redekop, Conrad Grebel College, emeritus • James M. Stayer, Queen's University, Ontario