MennoLink Books and Music

Learnings from Mennonite Central Committee personnel wrestling insightfully with what it means to build bridges across faith understandings.

Copyright 2007 Cascadia Publishing House

A major economic metamorphosis happened in the Paraguayan Chaco beginning in the 1960's. It followed thirty years of hardship and little progress for Mennonite immigrants from Canada and Mennonite refugees from Russia. The effort to settle an indigenous population greater than the Mennonite population in the succeeding thirty years makes this a curious event in world history.

In 1951 William T. Snyder, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Associate Executive Secretary, recruited a Mennonite couple graduating that year from Bethel College in Kansas, to manage a joint venture experimental farm in Fernheim Colony, Paraguay. It almost didn't work out. The Unruhs tried to disconnect from MCC after their first five year term expired, the working environment and living conditions so difficult; the Chaco was known as a 'Green Hell.' But they were moved to return and spent their working lives in the Chaco, 32 years altogether until illness intervened, along the way endearing themselves to the Mennonite settlers and to the native Indians.

Given the human yearning for precise explanations and an authoritative point of origin, the reader is taken by surprise encountering restraint, gentleness and straightforward reasoning in this gradual and complex evolutionary development. Leadership spontaneously rises to the occasion in a prosaic manner; scrupulously methodical, patient, nonassertive and nonjudgmental. This self-effacing style gave few persons in North America a clue-as it was happening-that the depth of the Unruh's imprint on Mennonite ethnicity in Paraguay might be significant or lasting.

Copyright 2009 Philip Roth

Thirty years later, the 30th anniversary edition is being released as a way to celebrate and honor Longacre's foresight and vision, and to pass on her vision for simple and sustainable living to a new generation.

with both classic and updated stories and tis about living simply and sustainably in areas such as money, clothing, cooking, eating, homes, transportation and travel, celebrations, recreation, and more, Living More with Less: 30th Anniversary Edition is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago--it may, in fact, be even more important, considering the pressing issues facing people and the planet today.

Copyright 2010 Herald Press.

Contributors include (in order of appearance) John A. Lapp, Esther Epp-Tiessen, James C. Juhnke, Ronald J. R. Mathies, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, Nancy R. Heisey, Stanley Green and James R. Krabill, Tobin Miller Shearer, Beth Graybill, Jennifer Keahey and Mary Littrell and Douglas Murray, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Perry Bush, Robb Davis, William Reimer and Bruce Guenther, Theodore J. Koontz, Terrence Jantzi, Arli Klassen.

Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2010 Masthof Press

Alain Epp Weaver, presents chapters by authors whose insights have been honed by years of work in the Middle East with Mennonite Central Committee. The authors seek fresh ways to understand and reconcile long-standing Palestinian-Israeli enmities.

Copyright 2007 Cascadia Publishing House

A Christmas instrumental recording with artist Calvin Dyck.

A recording produced by Communitas Supportive Care Society (formerly MCC Supportive Care Services), a non-profit, faith-based social services agency. Funds raised from the sale of this recording go toward the work of Communitas Supportive Care Society in supporting people who have disabilities. Copyright 2004.

This 25th anniversary edition begins with a new foreword by Mary Beth Lind that looks back at what we have and have not learned, the good news and bad news, and looks ahead to reclaiming the spirituality of food.

This book contains the original collection of recipes, spiced with anecdotes, comments and tips gleaned from 25 years of cooking More-With-Less.

Copyright 2001.

A cookbook in the tradition of More-with-Less Cookbook written by Joetta Handrich Schlabach with recipe editor Kristina Mast Burnett. Some recipes adapted to reduce fat or shorten preparation time. Alternate ingredients are suggested for items that may be hard to find.

Winner of 1992 Silver Angel Award from Religion in Media.

Taize style worship music.

A recording produced by Communitas Supportive Care Society (formerly MCC Supportive Care Services), a non-profit, faith-based social services agency. Funds raised from the sale of this recording go toward the work of Communitas Supportive Care Society in supporting people who have disabilities.

Copyright 2008.