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January 2005
Writing a life, by
Raylene
Hinz-Penner
Directory
of Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees
Book
Review: Unionists and the Civil War Experience in the Shenandoah
Valley,
by Rachel Waltner Goossen
Recent
Publications
Scrapbook
page, Goshen, by Dennis Stoesz
Scrapbook
page, North Newton, by John
D. Thiesen
The back
page, by John Sharp
October 2004
Zurich reflections,
by Franklin
Yoder
Reformed-Mennonite
dialogue in Zurich: Reflections on its significance for the unity of
Christ's body, by John Rempel
Zurich
reflections, by Dan Nighswander
Statement
of regret, by Ruedi Reich, President, Reformed Church of the
Canton of Zurich
In
Response to the Confession Coming from the Reformed Church of Zurich,
given by Ernest Geiser, President of the Council of Elders of the Swiss
Mennonite Church
Inauguration
of the Memorial Plaque to the Anabaptist Martyrs of Zurich, by
Ruedi Reich, Reformed Church of Zurich
Inauguration
of the Memorial Plaque Response, by Thomas Gyger, President,
Swiss Mennonite Conference
Tribute
to Hans Landis, by James Gotwals Landis
A short
reading list on Zurich
2004 John
Horsch Essay Contest Results
Swiss
Anabaptist Images of the 19th Century
Scrapbook
pages, Goshen, by Dennis Stoesz
The back
page, by John E. Sharp
July 2004
Heritage
matters: Attending to our
Church's History, by John E. Sharp
The
historical work of writing and collecting books, by Dennis Stoesz
MC USA
Historical Committee members
Swiss
place stone near Schleitheim: Täuferstein a symbol of
reconciliation, by Reuben Miller
Book
Review: A Family Torn Apart,
by Rachel Waltner Goossen
Book
Review: Choosing Against War: A Christian View, by J. Robart
Charles
Scrapbook
page, Goshen, by Dennis Stoesz
Scrapbook
page, North Newton, by John D. Thiesen
The back
page, by John E. Sharp
April 2004
A Voyage to
Pennsylvania and Native
American Voices, by John L. Ruth
An
Amish
Voyage to America, by S. Duane Kauffman
Dutch and
Swiss Mennonites take root in Canada: Two peoples, One identity,
by Royden Loewen
Reformed
Church of Zurich Invites Anabaptist Descendants to a ceremony of
Acknowledgement, by Kendra King
More Than
Distant Memories: Rosa's Journey from Nicaragua
Scrapbook
page, Goshen, by Dennis
Stoesz
Scrapbook
page, North Newton, by John D. Thiesen
The back
page, by John Sharp
January 2004
A
Model of Unity Amidst Diversity: The Former General Conference
Mennonite Church, by John D. Thiesen
I wish
I'd been there: Tsar Alexander comes to Lindenau, by Ted Regehr
Directory of
Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees
I wish
I'd been there: The 1803 hymnal meeting, by Glen Lehman
Book
Review: Men in Skirts: An Army Medic's Account of the Korean War and
After, by Rachel Waltner Goossen
Scrapbook
page, Goshen, by Dennis Stoesz
Scrapbook
page, North Newton, by John D. Thiesen
The back
page, by John E. Sharp
October 2003
Ruth and Me, by
Eve B. MacMaster
Philadelphia
Conference Celebrates Many Storeis, One Kingdom, by Laurie L.
Oswald
and John E. Sharp
2003
John Horsch Essay Contest Results
Book
Review: The Missing Peace, by
J. Robert Charles
I Wish I'd Been
There: Sonnenberg's Civil War Petition, by James O. Lehman
Scrapbook
page, Goshen, by Dennis Stoesz
Scrapbook
page, North Newton, by John D. Thiesen
The back page
,by John Sharp
July 2003
From Fort
Peachtree to Atlanta: The
Mennonite Story, by Sarah
Kehrberg
Passionate
Resonance: Cruz Cordero meets Dirk Willems, by Laurie Oswald
Onward
Martyrdom: An Anabaptist Rap, by Cruz Cordero
Mennonite
Handshakes, by Jep Hostetler
I Wish I'd Been
There: Grange le Comte, France, 1919, by Diane Zimmerman Umble
Scrapbook
page, Goshen, by Dennis Stoesz
Scrapbook
page, North Newton, by John D. Thiesen
The back page,
by John Sharp
April 2003
I wish I'd Been
There: Who Robbed the
Stagecoach on the Road to Milford Square? by
Maynard Shelly
Noodles, by Jep Hostetler
I Was There, but It Wasn't
Nice: The Closing of Goshen College in 1923, by
Paton Yoder
Harder
Responds to Leasa on Plockhoy, by Leland Harder
Leasa
Replies to Harder on Plockhoy, by K. Varden Leasa
A Review: Old Story,
Timely Play: Jordon's
Stormy Banks, by Mary Sprunger
The
Golden ABCs: Jonathan Zug's Copybook, by Paton Yoder
The back page,
by John
Sharp
January 2003
Rachel Weaver Kreider and the ROTC
Controversy at Ohio State University, 1934-35,
by James C. Juhnke
Upon
This Rock: the Geiststein, by David Rempel Smucker
Discovering
John Howard Yoder, a Genius too Relevant to Dismiss, by Laura
Yoder
Historic
Germantown Homecoming, by Leonard Gross
Mennonite
Mirth: It's All in a Name! by Jep Hostetler
Thiesen
creates web site of Martyrs Mirror illustrations
The back
page by John Sharp
October 2002
Setting the Record Straight on Pieter
Plockhoy - Delaware's First Mennonite, by
K. Varden Leasa
From
Cereal Boxes to Web Pages: Introducing our North Newton Archives, by
John D. Thiesen
I Wish I'd
Been There: Menno's Moment of Decision, January 30, 1536, by
Gerlof D. Homan
I Wish I'd
Been There: Pioneers on the Prairies, by Harry Stauffer
Mennonite
Mirth: Prop 'em up on the leanin' side! by Jep Hostetler
Book
Review: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, by Elaine Sommers
Rich
Recent
Publications
Book
Review: L.J. Heatwole, A Granddaughter's View, by Harold Lehman
The back
page, by John Sharp
July 2002
The
Role and Impact of the Conscience in Anabaptism, by Anne Yoder
The
Snyder Community at Plainview, Texas, by James A. Snyder
I Wish I'd Been
There: The Great Trek from Ukraine, 1943, by Marlene Epp
Book
Review: Julie Kasdorf 'The Body and the Book:Writing from a Mennonite
Life, by Rachel Waltner Goosen
Managing
Mennonite Memory: Mennonite Board of Missions, 1882-2002 (Eighth in a
Series), by Dennis Stoesz
The back
page, by John E. Sharp
April 2002
A Petion to the President in a Time of
War, Jacob Nold Collection
I Wish I'd
Been There: Across the Alley at "The Lambert Place", by James
R. Krabill
A Sermon
in Response to 9/11: The Price Tag of Fairness, by Melvin D.
Schmidt
Two
Anabaptists in the Heartland of Islam, by Kathy Fisher and Al
Keim
A Pinch of
This or That: Setting the Table in the Shenandoah Valley, by
Esther Shank
Mennonite
Mirth: Food That Makes Me Smile, by Jep Hostetler
The back
page, by John E. Sharp
January 2002
Nineteenth-century Humility: A Vital
Message for Today?, by Theron Schlabach
The
Professor and the Dean, by C. Norman Kraus
I Wish I'd
Been There: Deliberations of Fifty-one Ministers at Dordrecht,
by Elmer S. Yoder
I Wish I'd
Been There: Searching for Unity, by Mary Eleanor Bender
More
on Plockhoy: a "Commonwealth of Love and Equality", by Bart
Plantenga
The back
page, by John E. Sharp
October 2001
"Bloody Theater" and
Christian Discipleship, by
Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast
Will
of Syvaert Pietersz, by James W. Lowry
New
Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church, By Dennis Stoesz
I wish
I'd Been There: The First Amish Worship Service in Elkhart County, by
Daniel E. Hochstetler
The back
page, by John E. Sharp
July 2001
Drinking Anabaptist Tea and Other Tales
of Integration, by Peter J. Dyck
The
Baseball Commissioner and the Mennonites, by Steve Nolt
Managing
Mennonite Memory: Audiovisual Archives, by Dennis Stoesz
I
Wish I'd Been There:
"Negro slavery's Prophet of Deliverance," by Timothy Paul Erdel
I
Wish I'd Been There:
Celebrating a Life Lost, by Mary Swartley
Mennonite
Mirth: You know you are an aging Mennonite when... by Jep
Hostetler
Historic
Events and Highlights at Nashville 2001
I Wish I'd Been There: A
Balodgahan Welcome, by Eldon
E. Hostetler
Recent
Publications
The
back page, by John E. Sharp
April 2001
A Cheyenne Legacy at the Washita River, by Lawrence H. Hart
The
Mystery of the Plockhoy Settlement in the Valley of Swans,
by Bart Plantenga
Mennonite
Mirth: Stories on the Way to Market, by Jeb Hostetler
I Wish
I'd Been There: An Amish Ministers' Meeting, Noble, Iowa, 1874,
by Lois Gugel
Congregational
Vignettes 2000 - Collecting Oursevles, by Franklin Yoder
January 2001
In the Footsteps of Clayton Kratz, by Sidney King
Muenster
465 Years Later, by John A. Lapp
Mennonite
Mirth, by Jep Hostetler
New
Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church, by Dennis Stoesz,
Archivist
October 2000
Do You Have a Good Sense of Humor? by Jep Hostetler
Managing
Mennonite Memory: In Pursuit of a Congregational Records Schedule, by Gordon Oyer
1548
Froschauer German Bible, by Dennis Stoesz
I Wish I Had
Been There: John Schrag and the Kansas Mob, 1918, by James C.
Juhnke
I
Wish I Had Been There, by E. Morris Sider
Tension on the
Homefront: One Mennonite Community's Experience During World War II,
by Franklin Yoder
July 2000
Seeking
a Home: Entering and Leaving Manitoba, by Adolf Ens
New
Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church, by Dennis Stoesz
I
Wish I'd Been There: Negotiating with Ottawa, by Peter Dyck
I Wish I'd
Been There: Protesting Slavery, by Elaine Sommers Rich
Katharina
Hiebert: Manitoban Pioneer Midwife, by Regina Doerksen Neufeld
A
German Mennonite, Affirmation of Jochen Klepper in Nazi Germany,
by Gerlof Homan
Neujahrslied
(New Year's Song), by Jochen Kepper; translated by Dr. James
Vanderlaan, Illinois State University
April 2000
"Did not our hearts burn within us?" Reflections at the end
of a journey, by
Robert Kreider
I Wish I
'd Been There: Schleitheim Synod, by Myron S. Augsburger
I Wish
I'd Been There: Tanganyika, 1942, by James Hertzler
Embarrassing
Situations, by Jep Hostetler
Managing
Mennonite Memory, Mennonite Central Committee, 1920-(Fifth in a series),
by Irene Leaman
Hightlights
of the Mennonite Church General Assemblies, 1971-1999, by Ron Byler
January 2000
Tourism in Holmes County and the Ministry of
Behalt, by Susan Biesecker-Mast
I Wish I'd
Been There: A Professor in Underwear, by Peter J. Dyck
Book
Review: Women
Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the
American Home Front, 1941-1947 by Rachel Waltner Goossen,
by Kimberly Schmidt
Nebraska
Amish Settlement Revisited, by John E. Sharp
I Wish I'd
Been There: Resisting a Sacrad Symbol, by Julia Kasdorf
October 1999
Plain
People and the Refinement of America, by Steve Nolt
Managing
Mennonite Memory: Archives of the Mennonite Church, 1937- (Fourth in a
Series), by Dennis Stoesz
July 1999
Why don't we tell the beginning of the Story? by Rich H. Meyer
Recent
Publications
New Treasures in the Archives
of the Mennonite Church, by Dennis Stoesz
Marking
Time, by Wally Kroeker
April 1999
Pioneering
at Mayton, by Beulah Stauffer Hostetler
Managing
Mennonite Memory, by Dennis Stoez
What
is Your Humor Index? by
Jep Hostetler
Book
Reviews: Driving the Amish and The Amish and Their
Neighbours: The German Block, Wilmot Township
by Dale Bowman
January 1999
Telling A
Story That Has Told Me, by Ron Kennel
To Make
a Point: Stories from History for Preaching, Teaching and Pondering, by
John E. Sharp
Book
Review: Harold Bender, reviewed by Stanley Shenk
New
Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church, by Dennis Stoesz
October 1998
Mennonite Mirth,
by Jep Hostetler
An Amishman of
the Amish: The Reflections of Paton Yoder, by Paton Yoder
Heritage Works
A Rare
Find: The Discovery of an 1838 Letter, by Paton Yoder
Managing Mennonite Memory: Congregational Archival Records, by Dennis Stoesz
Recent Publications
July 1998
I Wish I'd Been There, by Gordon Oyer
Remember J.C.
Mennonite Mirth
,by Jep Hostetler
New
Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church, by Dennis Stoesz
April 1998
Managing Mennonite Memory, by Dennis Stoesz
A narrative to
accompany a Century of Mission, by John Sharp
A Century of
Mission Timeline
January 1998
New Treasures in the Archives of the
Mennonite Church, by Dennis Stoesz
Book Review:
Yonie Wondernose, reviewed by Kathryn Aschliman
The Riddle of
Things Past, by John L. Ruth
Mennonite
Historians Directory
October 1997
“All
Believers”: Reflections on the History of the General Conference
Mennonite Church ,by Steve Estes
“Der Weiss” Jonas
Stutzmann: Amish Pioneer and Mystic, by Greg Hartzler-Miller
“An Unscriptural
Passion” or “A Mighty Power”: The Advent of Sunday Schools in the
Mennonite Church, by John
E. Sharp
News and Notes
Recent Publications
July 1997
Illinois
Amish Interpretive Center, by Wilmer
Otto
I Wish I’d Been There:
Hubmaier v.
Zwingi, by Arnold Cressman
Worship at Mellinger, by Steve Nolt
New Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite
Church, by Dennis Stoesz
News and Notes
Recent Publications
April 1997
Keeping
the Faith: Dynamics of the Amish Movement Since the Division of the
1690s, by Roy Kline
Martyrs’ Mirror or
Bloody Theater, by James W. Lowry
An
Anniversary Celebration Notebook, by
John
Bender
Book Review:
Toews,
Paul, Mennonites in American Society, 1930-1970: Modernity and the
Persistence of Religious Community, Herald Press, 1996. reviewed by Leonard Gross
News and Notes
Recent Publications
January 1997
The
Relevance of Menno Simons for Evangelical
Christians by John D. Roth
The
Significance of Menno Simons by H. S.
Bender, 1936
New Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
Directory of Mennonite and
Related Church Historians and Committees
News and Notes
October 1996
Ora Troyer: Steward of His Community’s History by Dennis Stoesz
A Call To
Faithfulness: Dutch Mennonites Facing the Storm in 1940 by
Gerlof D. Homan Log Cabin Captures a
Moment in History by Roxana Currie
Book Reviews:
From Hazelbrush to Cornfields, the First
One Hundred Years of the Amish-Mennonites
in Johnson, Washington and Iowa Counties of Iowa, 1846-1946, by Katie Yoder
reviewed by Lorraine
Roth
Amish Folk Artist Barbara Ebersol: Her
Life, Fractur, and Death Record Book by David Luthy & Two
Amish Folk Artists: The Story of Herry Lapp and Barbara Ebersol by
Louise Stotlzfus reviewed by Gerald Studer
News and Notes
Recent Publications
A Fraktur Memento Recalling the Work of Menno Simons 1496-1561 [order
form]
July 1996
Harmony Revisited by Larry D. Rohrer
I Wish I’d Been There:
My Mother and
the One-armed Preacher by Russell Krabill
Menno "Doing
Church" by Leonard Gross
Joseph
Summers’ Travel Stories by
Levi Miller
Amish
Anabaptists in Switzerland in 1861: Ch. Aug. Ramseyer’s Letter to Shem
Zook, February 1, 1861, Translated and edited by Leonard Gross
and Paton Yoder
Archives of
the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
Book Review:
Mennonite
High School
Education at Half Century by Dale Shenk
News and Notes
April 1996
The Portraits of Menno Simons by Irvin B. Horst
More Faces of Menno by John E. Sharp
Present at the Inception: Menno Simons and the Beginnings of
Dutch Anabaptism by
Abraham Friesen
Menno Answers His Critics on the Issue of Peace and Violence
News and Notes
January 1996
The Master and the Mennonites or "Did Anslo
Make it?" by Julia Kasdorf
I Wish I’d
Been There: Coup d’etat at Münster by J. Robert Charles
Whenever
You Drink Coffee in Vienna,
Think of Michael Sattler and the Turks by Joseph S. Miller
Historians’
Collaboration on the Mennonite
Encyclopedia by Rachel Waltner Goossen
Choosing a
Hymnal by Amos B. Hoover
Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees
John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest Winners 1995
Archives
of the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
Recent Publications
News and Notes
Remembering the Birth of Menno Simons, 1496 [fraktur purchase order
form]
October 1995
Reading Between the Lines: Stories of Women Leaders in the
Franconia Conference by
Mary Jane Hershey
Open Windows:
English Quakers View European Mennonites by Harold D. Lehman
News and Notes
The Archives Scrapbook Page by John
Sharp
Recent Publications
July 1995
Amish Mennonites and the U.S. Supreme Court: 110
Years Before Yoder by Steve Nolt
Conferences and
Congregations: A Review of Mennonite Church Polity by James M.
Lapp
Book Review:
Ignited and
Extinguished Torches: Society of
Brothers in Review by Marlin Jeschke
New Book Released - My Dear Joe and companion volume, My
Dear Alice,
The Effects of an
MC-GC Merger on Archives and Historical Activities by John D.
Thiesen
News and Notes
April 1995
Theological
Uncertainty Beyond the Mystic Border by
Joseph Miller
Mennonites in Kansas by John D.
Thiesen
Menno Simons Surfaces Again by
Donald F. Durnbaugh
Recent Publications
Book Reviews:
Breaking the Silence on Faith and
Economics by Daniel J. Miller
Guides to Amish and Mennonites: Four
Approaches by Troy David Osborne
News and Notes
January 1995
The
Organizational Children of MCC by Calvin
Redekop
Community, Place and Peoplehood in New
York by Kimberly D. Schmidt
History Keeping in the Shenandoah Valley
by Randy Shank
Archives of the Mennonite Church by
Dennis Stoesz
Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees
News and Notes
John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest Winners 1994