Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080508925X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by : Rhoda Janzen

Download or read book Mennonite in a Little Black Dress written by Rhoda Janzen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron comes Janze's hilarious and moving memoir about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.

Black and Mennonite

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Publisher : Herald Press (VA)
ISBN 13 : 9780836118018
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Black and Mennonite by : Hubert L. Brown

Download or read book Black and Mennonite written by Hubert L. Brown and published by Herald Press (VA). This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author explains his faith as an Anabaptiste Mennonite, He answers the question " Can a person be black and Mennonite at the same time?"

Rolling Down Black Stockings

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Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873388283
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (882 download)

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Book Synopsis Rolling Down Black Stockings by : Esther Royer Ayers

Download or read book Rolling Down Black Stockings written by Esther Royer Ayers and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. This poignant story is told in three books: book 1 describes her youth in a farm community on the outskirts of Columbiana, Ohio; book 2 follows the struggles of Ayers as she tries to fit in with another culture after leaving the church when her family moves to Akron, Ohio; and book 3 discusses the history and cultural dynamics of the religion. Ayers recounts how the Old Order Mennonite Church came into existence. Her personal account begins when she was eight years old, watching as her mother took care of her sick father. With intel-ligence and insight, Ayers describes how her family coped with the burden of not having enough income, which meant that the children were expected to work instead of getting an education. her Mennonite community, Ayers relates her difficulties trying to fit in at the public school and how she and her siblings were required to fall classes so that they would be expelled. It concludes with reflections on what all this meant to her. A rare and moving memoir, Rolling Down Black Stockings is also a valuable piece of social history that will appeal to historians as well as those interested in separatist communities and women's studies.

Black and Mennonite

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579105769
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis Black and Mennonite by : Hubert L. Brown

Download or read book Black and Mennonite written by Hubert L. Brown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-02-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Black Mennonite Church in North America

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579105785
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis The Black Mennonite Church in North America by : LeRoy Bechler

Download or read book The Black Mennonite Church in North America written by LeRoy Bechler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-02-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latino Mennonites

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412845
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Latino Mennonites by : Felipe Hinojosa

Download or read book Latino Mennonites written by Felipe Hinojosa and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical analysis of the changing relationship between religion and ethnicity among Latino Mennonites. Winner, 2015 Américo Paredes Book Award, Center for Mexican American Studies and South Texas College. Felipe Hinojosa's parents first encountered Mennonite families as migrant workers in the tomato fields of northwestern Ohio. What started as mutual admiration quickly evolved into a relationship that strengthened over the years and eventually led to his parents founding a Mennonite Church in South Texas. Throughout his upbringing as a Mexican American evangélico, Hinojosa was faced with questions not only about his own religion but also about broader issues of Latino evangelicalism, identity, and civil rights politics. Latino Mennonites offers the first historical analysis of the changing relationship between religion and ethnicity among Latino Mennonites. Drawing heavily on primary sources in Spanish, such as newspapers and oral history interviews, Hinojosa traces the rise of the Latino presence within the Mennonite Church from the origins of Mennonite missions in Latino communities in Chicago, South Texas, Puerto Rico, and New York City, to the conflicted relationship between the Mennonite Church and the California farmworker movements, and finally to the rise of Latino evangelical politics. He also analyzes how the politics of the Chicano, Puerto Rican, and black freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s civil rights movements captured the imagination of Mennonite leaders who belonged to a church known more for rural and peaceful agrarian life than for social protest. Whether in terms of religious faith and identity, race, immigrant rights, or sexuality, the politics of belonging has historically presented both challenges and possibilities for Latino evangelicals in the religious landscapes of twentieth-century America. In Latino Mennonites, Hinojosa has interwoven church history with social history to explore dimensions of identity in Latino Mennonite communities and to create a new way of thinking about the history of American evangelicalism.

Black and Mennonite

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Black and Mennonite by : Hubert L. Brown

Download or read book Black and Mennonite written by Hubert L. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Body and the Book

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271035447
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Body and the Book by : Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Download or read book The Body and the Book written by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1680992430
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups by : Stephen Scott

Download or read book Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups written by Stephen Scott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a story which until now has not been available in such an interesting and comprehensive form. What holds these people together? Why are they growing in number? Where do they live? The Old Order Mennonites are less well known than the Amish, but are similar in many beliefs and practices. Some Old Order Mennonites drive horses and buggies. Others use cars for transportation. Conservative Mennonite groups vary a great deal, but in general espouse strong faith and family life and believe that how they live should distinguish them from the larger society around them. The author details courtship and wedding practices, methods of worship, dress, transportation, and vocation. Never before has there been such an inside account of these people and their lives. The author spent years conferring and interviewing members of the various groups, trying to portray their history and their story in a fair and accurate manner. An enjoyable, educational, inspiring book.

Beliefs

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Publisher : Herald Press
ISBN 13 : 9780836192704
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Beliefs by : John D. Roth

Download or read book Beliefs written by John D. Roth and published by Herald Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask any person randomly on the sidewalk what they know about the Mennonites and chances are their answer will include Mormons, black clothes and buggies, or general confusion. This short, engaging book gives a brief account of what Mennonites believe. From the beginnings of the Anabaptist (or Mennonite) movement in the 16th-century, to biblical interpretation, baptism, understandings of the church, ethics, and the complex question of denominationalism, John D. Roth provides a solid framework for on-going conversations about faithful discipleship in the Mennonite church today. Free downloadable study guide available here.

Blush

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Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836198719
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis Blush by : Shirley Hershey Showalter

Download or read book Blush written by Shirley Hershey Showalter and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I promise: you will be transported,” says Bill Moyers of this memoir. Part Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, part Growing Up Amish, and part Little House on the Prairie, this book evokes a lost time, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when a sheltered little girl named after Shirley Temple entered a family and church caught up in the midst of the cultural changes of the 1950”s and ‘60’s. With gentle humor and clear-eyed affection the author, who grew up to become a college president, tells the story of her first encounters with the “glittering world” and her desire for “fancy” forbidden things she could see but not touch. The reader enters a plain Mennonite Church building, walks through the meadow, makes sweet and sour feasts in the kitchen and watches the little girl grow up. Along the way, five other children enter the family, one baby sister dies, the family moves to the “home place.” The major decisions, whether to join the church, and whether to leave home and become the first person in her family to attend college, will have the reader rooting for the girl to break a new path. In the tradition of Jill Ker Conway’s The Road to Coorain, this book details the formation of a future leader who does not yet know she’s being prepared to stand up to power and to find her own voice. The book contains many illustrations and resources, including recipes, a map, and an epilogue about why the author is still Mennonite. Topics covered include the death of a child, Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, the role of bishops in the Mennonite church, the paradoxes of plain life (including fancy cars and the practice of growing tobacco). The drama of passing on the family farm and Mennonite romance and courtship, as the author prepares to leave home for college, create the final challenges of the book.

Horse-and-buggy Mennonites

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271028653
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Horse-and-buggy Mennonites by : Donald B. Kraybill

Download or read book Horse-and-buggy Mennonites written by Donald B. Kraybill and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how the Wengers have cautiously and incrementally adapted to the changes swirling around them, this book offers an invaluable case study of a traditional group caught in the throes of a postmodern world."--Jacket.

Kinship Concealed

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Publisher : Legacy Books
ISBN 13 : 9781937952426
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (524 download)

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Book Synopsis Kinship Concealed by : Sharon Cranford

Download or read book Kinship Concealed written by Sharon Cranford and published by Legacy Books. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pain of religious persecution to the horrors of slavery, followed by the inhumanities of Black codes and Jim Crow, Kinship Concealed sheds light on a mixed race family's struggle to reach its view of the American dream.

Mennonite Meets Mr. Right

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455502898
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Mennonite Meets Mr. Right by : Rhoda Janzen

Download or read book Mennonite Meets Mr. Right written by Rhoda Janzen and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of her bestselling memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen had reconnected with her family roots, though her future felt uncertain. When this overeducated professor starts dating the most unlikely of men-a weight-liftin', church-goin', truck-drivin' rocker named Mitch-she begins a surprising journey to faith and love. Nothing says, "Let's get to know each other!" like lady problems on an epic scale, but Mitch vows to stay by her side. Convinced that his bedrock character has something to do with his Pentecostal church, Rhoda suits up for a brave new world of sparkler pom-poms and hand-clappin' hallelujahs. Written with her trademark "uproarious, bawdy sense of humor" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune), Mennonite Meets Mr. Right is witty and moving, perfect for anyone who has taken an unexpected detour only to find that new roads lead to rich destinations.

Mennonite Community Cookbook

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Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836199774
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis Mennonite Community Cookbook by : Mary Emma Showalter

Download or read book Mennonite Community Cookbook written by Mary Emma Showalter and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “grandmother of all Mennonite cookbooks” brings a touch of Mennonite culture and hospitality to any home that relishes great cooking. Mary Emma Showalter compiled favorite recipes from hundreds of Mennonite women across the United States and Canada noted for their excellent cooking into this book of more than 1,100 recipes. These tantalizing dishes came to this country directly from Dutch, German, Swiss, and Russian kitchens. Old-fashioned cooking and traditional Mennonite values are woven throughout. Original directions like “a dab of cinnamon” or “ten blubs of molasses” have been standardized to help you get the same wonderful individuality and flavor. Showalter introduces each chapter with her own nostalgic recollection of cookery in grandma’s day—the pie shelf in the springhouse, outdoor bake ovens, the summer kitchen. First published in 1950, Mennonite Community Cookbook has become a treasured part of many family kitchens. Parents who received the cookbook when they were first married make sure to purchase it for their own sons and daughters when they wed. This 65th anniversary edition adds all new color photography and a brief history while retaining all of the original recipes and traditional Fraktur drawings. Check out the cookbook blog at mennonitecommunitycookbook.com

Love What Matters

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501169149
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Love What Matters written by LoveWhatMatters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Humans of New York comes a collection of authentic, emotional, and inspiring stories about life’s most important moments, as curated by the editors at Love What Matters. “90% of the reads bring me to tears. I just can't believe the love this world truly has when all we see is hate. This is so uplifting.” —Shelsea Where do you go when you want to feel inspired? When you want to forget about the divisiveness and the anger? For over five million people, that place is Love What Matters, a digital platform dedicated to finding and sharing the daily moments of kindness, compassion, and love that so often go overlooked. This curated collection of powerful stories features first person accounts and photographs that perfectly capture each moment: A husband learning he’s about to be a dad. A new mom embracing her body. A cashier inadvertently teaching a young girl a lesson about patience. A bagel from a stranger that saved a homeless man’s life. From long overdue adoptions to military heroes returning home; from a fireman’s touching 9/11 tribute to what an old dinner plate found at a bake sale can teach us all about life—these are the moments that matter. They are genuine. Authentic. Raw. And they are perfect in their imperfection—just like all of us. You will no doubt experience goosebumps and tears, but this mosaic of life’s moments will leave you with something even more profound: a reminder that, in the end, love always wins. “This really is the best page on Facebook. It renews your love of humanity. There are still good people. We need more reports of acts of kindness.” —Johnny

Old Order Mennonites

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780830415731
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Old Order Mennonites by : Daniel B. Lee

Download or read book Old Order Mennonites written by Daniel B. Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee focuses on the Weaverland Conference of Old Order Mennonites, a group formed in 1893 and now consisting of over 5,000 members. A large concentration of Weaverland Mennonites live in upstate New York near Seneca Falls, and Lee focuses his easily readable sociological study on that community. Individual chapters deal with the worship, rituals, rules, and discipline of the group, and with a number of recent defections to a more mainstream Mennonite Church located in the same area. Lee argues that Weaverland Mennonites are held together by their practices alone, rather than by a common underlying set of beliefs. --Choice Magazine