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From 1995 to 2002, the author and his family gave up all claims to personal property, moved to Starland Colony in Minnesota, and joined the often contradictory Old World existence of the Hutterites, whose isolated faming communes stretch across the American Great Plains and the prairie provinces of Canada. In Nightwatch, the author explores the modern-day expression of Hutterianism, born amid the flames and persecution of the Reformation and transplanted in the 1870s from Russia to the western United States. This is a story not only of spiritual questioning, but an inquiry into what it is be "strangers among strangers," looking at the inner callings that bring people together, and in some cases drive them apart.

Copyright 2009 Good Books

Readers will find practical ideas for managing family time, priorities, prayer, electronic media, and more to pass on the torch of faith.

Parents can feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of teaching their children so they will choose Christ's way for life. Here they will sense the privilege, joy, and confidence God will surely give them.

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

Hope Indeed! is his collection of stories of stunningly ordinary people behaving with extraordinary hope. These include Ned Wyse, a farmer/pastor in Michigan who was randomly chosen for beating by some neighborhood kids, the Palestinian parents who gave their young murdered son's organs to ill Jewish children, Michael Weisser and his family who took food to the white supremacists who had harassed them mercilessly, and more.

Copyright 2008 Good Books

Geddert's study of a few controversial issues--love your enemies (nonviolence), sexuality, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, money and possessions--demonstrates how the discerning community can work toward consensus.

Copyright 2008 Herald Press

As their frame of reference shifted from the rural to the professional, many of these writers assumed key roles in leading and shaping Mennonite institutions. For all of them, some kind of service-to their church, to their community, to the world-was an imperative.

Theologically, they embraced an evangelicalism rooted in sixteenth century Anabaptism and a commitment to the Anabaptist vision of Harold Bender. in their time of social change, Anabaptism offered these sixteen individuals an explanation of what they believed and helped them nourish that centuries old sense of being an alternative to magisterial Protestantism.

These remarkable accounts reflect the experiences and stories similar to those of hundreds of Mennonites whose lives were changed during this disruptive era. By confronting their own beliefs and faith practices, they gradually transformed the Mennonite church. No more could Mennonites be Die Stillen im Lande.

Contributors include, Esther K Augsburger, Myron S Augsbuger, Titus W Bender, James R Bomberger, Gerald R Brunk, Ray Gingerich, Samuel L Horst, Albert N Keim, C Norman Kraus, Nancy V. Lee, Harold D Lehman, John R Martin, Paul Peachey, Calvin W Redekop, Calvin E Shenk, and Edward B Stoltzfus.

Copyright 2007 Anabaptist Center for Religious Study, Eastern Mennonite University

For prisoners, the Victims' Voice program has given them the change in the healing process for victims' families.

From victimization to compassion...a story of hope. Discussion questions included.

"The death penalty is an act of rage. It is an act of revenge. But we have to remember truly what the death penalty is. The death penalty is...a staged political event."

"If you do forgive it doesn't make you weak. It doesn't make you have any less respect for your loved one that was killed. If anything, it respects their lives more."

Wether you believe the death penalty is the ultimate punishment for murder or taking another's life is always wrong, Bud's story moves the debate over capital punishment from a philosophical discussion to a real-life level. Bud experienced terrible loss, yet opposes the loss of additional lives through the death penalty.

Discussions questions included.

Wangerin describes Elijah, a much-loved and very soft-hearted African American school principal, and his wife Mary, a strong and independent third-grade school teacher. We meet Elijah in his role as a school principal telling a student that he can't give her what she wants, but "I can give her the getting."

When Elijah undergoes surgery, he is told he has cancer and only a short time to live. As he wastes with surprising speed, he tells Pastor Walt, "You and I know what (my wife) needs. I can't give her what she needs, but I can give her the getting'. Pray with me." So Walt prays the Lord's Prayer, one step which leads toward the beginning stages of acceptance, forgiveness, and resolution.

A real life story that will grab your heart. Discussion questions included.