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My Calling to Fulfill

Author : John E. Sharp
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836199812
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book My Calling to Fulfill written by John E. Sharp and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a century marked by two devastating world wars, the fractious fundamentalist-modernist debate, and growing diversity in the church, Orie O. Miller helped to lead Mennonites from rural isolation to global engagement. In this engaging narrative, My Calling to Fulfill describes how Miller led Mennonite work in education, missions, peacemaking, postwar reconstruction, and mental health, and how he helped to mold every major Mennonite agency from Mennonite Central Committee to Mennonite Economic Development Agency. Filled with previously untold stories of Miller’s personal life—his childhood, college years, marriage, and internal conflict between his commitment to his family and commitment to his beloved church—this inspiring and comprehensive biography traces the contours of twentieth-century Anabaptism through the theology and vocation of one of its most influential leaders. Free downloadable study guide available here.

Orie O. Miller

Author : Paul Erb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orie O. Miller written by Paul Erb and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boy & the Old Man

Author : Omar Eby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465325735
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Boy & the Old Man written by Omar Eby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So who is Omar Eby? A retired English professor (tenderhearted and cynical) who looks with affection and severity upon the young man he once was in Somalia. Ebys first chapter Learning My Name quickly and playfully sets the tone for this fascinating memoir, The Boy and the Old Man. Identifying with one Omar after another, Eby skips from a Taliban terrorist and a four-star general to a translator of Somali tales and an Old Testament duke; then recalls an English student in Mogadiscio and an Epicurean Persian poet; meets a Chilean Anabaptist and finally names the close friend of Prophet Muhammad, Omar ibn al Khattab. You think this an exercise in narcissism? Of course notthe author finds too many ties linking a nave Mennonite missionary boy to Muslim society and the incredible beauty of the natural worldshows too well the tensions between documented facts and dramatic memory. On the horn of Africa, Somali pirates seize tankers. On the mainland, clans fire rockets into each others quarters of Mogadishu, once the capital of the Somali Republic. But Omar Eby remembers another Somalia, when he taught there 50 years ago. Through the grid of accumulated years, Eby studies that missionary boy. The reader hears two voices: the 23-year old boy and the 73-year old man. Often the old man loves the boy; often the boy embarrasses him. The Somalis, Eby remembers as beautiful and exasperating, then, in 1959, as now, in 2009. The chapters are like a series of transparencies laid down one on top of the other. The boys views overlaid by the mans two visits to Somalia in his thirties and then memory laid over everything. With more details, everything should be clearer. Yet, Eby writes in the Introduction, we are pleasantly surprised to find that the historically reconstructed self is still blurred, as muddy as the Shebelli River which flows through Somalia from the Ethiopian highlands.

Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962

Author : Albert N. Keim
Publisher : Herald Press (VA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962 written by Albert N. Keim and published by Herald Press (VA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Albert Keim's captivating study of Bender, I gained much insight into this fascinating, complex person who was one of the commanding figures among Mennonites in this century--in fact, in our entire American experience. This is a book I could not put aside".--Robert Kreider, former director of Mennonite Library and Archives.

War, Peace, and Social Conscience

Author : Theron F. Schlabach
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836198085
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book War, Peace, and Social Conscience written by Theron F. Schlabach and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Howard Yoder is one of the best-known Mennonite thinkers on peace. But before Yoder there was Guy F. Hershberger, whose reflections on war, violence and peace helped Mennonites navigate perilous times in early to mid-20th century, and who also laid the foundation for what became the Alternative Service Program in the U.S. during World War II. In the 1960s, he played an important role in guiding the Mennonite church’s response to the civil rights movement—nudging them toward greater openness to Martin Luther King’s call for justice for African-Americans. In this definitive biography, Theron F. Schlabach shows how Hershberger helped Christians live their faith in a world beset by war and injustice, at the same time pioneering creative ways to engage pressing concerns such as civil rights, economic justice and capital punishment. Says Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School: “What Schlabach has given us is an invaluable, honest account of a life lived in the tensions of the Mennonite church as that church explored the implications of being a people committed to nonviolence. The resulting account is a crucial account not only of Hershberger’s life, but of Mennonite life—an accounting I hope non-Mennonites will find instructive because it may help them understand Mennonites, but more importantly how Mennonites help us better understand what being Christian entails.” War, Peace, and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics was made possible through the generous support of Mennonite Mutual Aid and the Mennonite Historical Society.

Studies in the African Diaspora

Author : John P. Henderson
Publisher : The Majority Press
ISBN 13 : 9780912469256
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the African Diaspora written by John P. Henderson and published by The Majority Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memorial volume by former Ph.D. students of James R. Hooker, late Professor of African History at Michigan State University. Topics include missionaries in Africa, early nationalist politics in British West Africa and Kenya, slave drivers in the United States, the Garvey Movement in Dominica and General Motors in South Africa. John P. Henderson is Professor of Economics and Harry A. Reed is Associate Professor of History, both at Michigan State University.

The Mennonite Church in the Second World War

Author : Guy F. Hershberger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579105076
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The Mennonite Church in the Second World War written by Guy F. Hershberger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete story of the Mennonite Church honestly and fairly told, covering all phases of war relations during the critical period from 1940 to 1945.

The Mennonite Quarterly Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Mennonite Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Mennonites and Protestant Movements

Author : Beulah S. Hostetler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579109063
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book American Mennonites and Protestant Movements written by Beulah S. Hostetler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Mennonites and Protestant Movements describes the key religious values in a major Mennonite settlement over a period of three centuries in its encounter with other religious movements: Pietism, revivalism, Fundamentalism, and institutionalization. The author analyzes how Mennonites both resisted these influences and were changed by them. The book also documents the codification of practice in the twentieth century and how restrictions waned as a growing emphasis on peace and service emerged. The author demonstrates that the key values shaping the Mennonite community are religious, not simply ethnic, and are consistent with their sixteenth-century character. These conclusions are based on a careful study of their value patterns, nonverbal behavior, issues and personalities in confrontation, and in the conduct of their community behavior. This book will help a new generation of Mennonites who wish to discover their heritage and spiritual identity. For Christian believers outside the Anabaptist tradition it will clarify long-standing ambiguities about the Mennonites.

Opposition to War [2 volumes]

Author : Mitchell K. Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Opposition to War [2 volumes] written by Mitchell K. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict? This two-volume set documents peace and antiwar movements in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Although national leaders often claim to be fighting to achieve peace, the real peace seekers struggle against enormous resistance to their message and have often faced persecution for their efforts. Despite a well-established pattern of being involved in wars, the United States also has a long tradition of citizens who made extensive efforts to build and maintain peaceful societies and prevent the destructive human and material costs of war. Unarmed activists have most consistently upheld American values at home. Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements investigates this historical tradition of resistance to involvement in armed conflict—an especially important and relevant topic today as the nation has been mired in numerous military conflicts throughout most of the current century. The book examines a largely misunderstood and underappreciated minority of Americans who have committed themselves to finding peaceful resolutions to domestic and international conflicts—individuals who have proposed and conducted an array of practical and creative methods for peaceful change, from the transformation of individual behavior to the development of international governing and legal systems, for more than 250 years. Readers will learn how individuals working alone or organized into societies of various size have steadfastly campaigned to stop war, end the arms race, eliminate the underlying causes of war, and defend the civil liberties of Americans when wartime nationalism most threatens them.

From Nonresistance to Justice

Author : Ervin R. Stutzman
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836197879
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book From Nonresistance to Justice written by Ervin R. Stutzman and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more things change, the more they stay the same. From Nonresistance to Justice explores how this is true when it comes to teaching about peace for the former Mennonite Church, now part of Mennonite Church USA. Has the church changed in regard to its beliefs and practices about peace over the past 100 years? Yes. Has it remained the same? Yes. Reading this book will show that both are true. Through the book, Ervin Stutzman shows how the church moved from an emphasis on nonresistance and nonconformity to engage in advocacy for peace and justice. At the same time, he presses for a greater emphasis on the way that God’s activity must guide our work in the world, arguing for a stronger link between God’s grace, justice, and peace. Volume 46 in the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series.

Cumulative Index to Publications of the Committee on Un-American Activities 1938-1954

Author : Estados Unidos. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Cumulative Index to Publications of the Committee on Un-American Activities 1938-1954 written by Estados Unidos. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acts of Conscience

Author : Steven J. Taylor
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815609155
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Conscience written by Steven J. Taylor and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional staff. Prominent Americans, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, author Pearl S. Buck, actress Helen Hayes, and African-American activist Mary McLeod Bethune, supported the efforts of the young men. These young men were among the 12,000 World War II conscientious objectors who chose to perform civilian public service as an alternative to fighting in what is widely regarded as America’s “good war.” Three thousand of these men volunteered to work at state institutions where they discovered appalling conditions. Acting on conscience a second time, they challenged America’s treatment of its citizens with severe disabilities. Acts of Conscience brings to light the extra-ordinary efforts of these courageous men, drawing upon extensive archival research, interviews, and personal correspondence. The World War II conscientious objectors were not the first to expose public institutions, and they would not be the last. What distinguishes them from reformers of other eras is that their activities have faded from the professional and popular memory. Taylor’s moving account is an indispensable contribution to the historical record.

A PAX Adventure 1954 - 1956

Author : Philip A. Roth
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525504630
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book A PAX Adventure 1954 - 1956 written by Philip A. Roth and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEFORE THE INCEPTION of charitable organizations for impoverished people globally, the Mennonite Central Committee was an early innovator for overseas development. Pax (Latin meaning peace) was one of its programs designed specifically for volunteer single men of draft age. This is a story of one man’s journey as heavy equipment operator with training in Texas and Peru, then to Paraguay building roads. In a unit of five, he worked to connect Paraguay’s most isolated Caucasian settlements to the outside world. Along the way, he experienced high-flying adventures, met curious Paraguayan locals and learned some life lessons lost to many young men. Part memoir and part history, this is an account about the power of faith, the virtue in productive work and the rewarding consequences of dedication to the ideal of serving humankind.

Where the People Go

Author : John D. Roth
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1513806793
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Where the People Go written by John D. Roth and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A barn raising. A quilting bee. A credit union. A socially responsible investment. Where the People Go tells the story of Anabaptist-Mennonite efforts to enable communal forms of sharing. Mutual aid, stewardship, and generosity are deeply embedded in the Christian faith and have been actively nurtured among Anabaptist-Mennonite groups. Spontaneous forms of assistance—a barn raising, a quilting bee, shared meals—are the best-known expressions of such compassion and generosity, but the commitment to “sharing one another’s burdens” has also found expression in more formal structures. Seventy-five years ago, Mennonite Mutual Aid emerged to organize the principle of sharing within a growing Mennonite denomination. A dynamic organization from the beginning, MMA moved quickly from a burial and survivor’s aid plan to include health, property, and automobile insurance. In coming decades, the organization shifted its focus from mutual aid to stewardship and generosity, symbolized by a growing emphasis on socially responsible investment programs, wholistic health, financial planning, and services associated with its member-owned credit union. Always an agency of the Mennonite church, MMA, now known as Everence, has balanced its spiritual commitments with an increasingly complex regulatory environment, the national strains associated with the health-care debate, the shifting sensibilities of its customers, and the organizational complexities of a major corporation. This story of Everence captures the stresses and idealism of a church-related institution committed to mutual aid, stewardship, and generosity during its seventy-five-year history.

Peace Clan

Author : Peter M. Sensenig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498231020
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Peace Clan written by Peter M. Sensenig and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when North American Mennonite Christians arrive in Islamic Somalia? The answer, according to Peter Sensenig, is that something new emerges: a peace clan. From the first schools and medical work in the 1950s up to the educational partnerships of the present day, Somalis and Mennonites formed a surprising friendship that defied conventional labels. Peace Clan is the story of two deeply traditional communities as they encounter change. How can Somalis apply the profound peacemaking resources of their culture and faith in a society fragmented by violence? And how can modernizing Mennonites make sense of their peace convictions in the context of civil war and military intervention? In struggling with these questions over the course of six decades, Somalis and Mennonites held a mirror up to one another. The author shows how the common quest to transform enmity brings out the best in both communities, and suggests what a fruitful partnership might look like in the present challenges. Students, academics, and lay readers alike will find on these pages a compelling invitation to join the peace clan.

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Author : Leonard G. Friesen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148750568X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union written by Leonard G. Friesen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism. Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the Russian Empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.