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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, serviceÑto church, community, worldÑwas an imperative. In their time of social change, Anabaptism offered these sixteen individuals an explanation of what they believed and how to live.

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 "the quiet in the land.

Authors include Esther K. Augsburger, Myron S. Augsburger, 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.

Note that this Cascadia edition of Making Sense of the Journey is nearly the same as the edition released earlier by Anabaptist Center for Society & Religion. ACRS and Cascadia are offering this Cascadia edition to enhance the significant distribution and promotional efforts ACRS is already making on behalf of its publications.

Copyright 2009 Cascadia Publishing House

Written originally in German and published in the Canadian Mennonite journal "Der Bote," Janzen's little book is part confession, part memoir, and part critique of the life he experienced in the Mennonite colonies in the Russia of his youth. Available now for the first time in English, Jacob H Janzen's thoughtful reflections "lift the veil" on a unique period of Mennonite history.

ACRS (the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society) Memoirs volume 1 told of how the twentieth century shaped mostly rural Mennonites. Volume 2 gives readersÑincluding former EMU studentsÑopportunity to explore what they wish they could have known about crucial events and questions in the hearts and minds of these church and college administrators, professors, authors, service workers, internationalists, and change agents.

Authors include John A. Lapp, Lee Snyder, Laban Peachey, George R. Brunk III, Hubert R. Pellman, A. Grace Wenger, Jay B. Landis, Ray E. Horst, Kenton K. Brubaker, James O. Lehman, Omar Eby, Carroll D. Yoder, Vernon E. Jantzi, Catherine R. Mumaw, Elmer S. Miller, Robert Lee.

Copyright 2009 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2009 Good Books

What makes this collecton a stand-out is Dorcas' "Mother voice." With each new development, she's clear about the outcome she's hoping for, less certain about how she'll accomplish it, willing to confess the way things unfolded. Dorcas Smucker is bravely honest and hilariously humble. She never fails to give courage to any parent who reads these joyride chapters, while relentlessly entertaining.

Copyright 2007 Good Books

Dorcas and her husband, Paul, are purposeful parents. But they aren't perfect. Dorcas wonders if their marriage can endure when she and Paul can't ever figure out what gifts to give each other. She tries to navigate her mild daughter's development into a very certain self, wondering, "When do I give in, and when do I stand firm?"

There are no recipes here. But there is story upon story. Dorcas has three daughters and three sons. And she has a voice—encouraging, doubting, entertaining, but never taking herself too seriously.

Copyright 2006 Good Books

Copyright 2009 Cascadia Publishing House

When Dr. Gerald L. Miller left his Markle, Indiana, family practice to respond to an urgent need for a doctor at the Jamama Hospital, he faced the challenge of understanding an Islamic culture much different from his own and of dealing with medical situations unlike any he had encountered: village children attacked by a mad dog, a psychotic woman chained to a stake, infants dead from malaria, banana workers bitten by venomous snakes. Not only did Miller respond readily and with compassion, he also acted with ingenuity, discovering, for example, that the malaria organism was crossing the placental barrier.

Throughout a year of challenges, Dr. Miller had his Mennonite faith and the abiding support of Somali hospital staff and mission personnel to sustain him. Readers will be moved by the climax of this drama, a surprising outcome involving the actions of a single Somali family.

Copyright 2009 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2003 Pandora Press.

Copyright 2004 Herald Press.