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Feature Articles (1995-2002), Alphabetical Listing

1548 Froschauer German Bible by Dennis Stoesz
A Call To Faithfulness: Dutch Mennonites Facing the Storm in 1940 by Gerlof D. Homan
A Century of Mission Timeline by John E. Sharp
A Cheyenne Legacy at the Washita River by Lawrence H. Hart
A German Mennonite, Affirmation of Jochen Klepper in Nazi Germany by Gerlof Homan
A narrative to accompany a Century of Mission by John Sharp
A Petion to the President in a Time of War, Jacob Nold Collection
A Pinch of This or That: Setting the Table in the Shenandoah Valley, by Esther Shank
A Rare Find: The Discovery of an 1838 Letter by Paton Yoder
A Sermon in Response to 9/11: The Price Tag of Fairness, by Melvin D. Schmidt
“All Believers”: Reflections on the History of the General Conference Mennonite Church by Steve Estes

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
Amish Mennonites and the U.S. Supreme Court: 110 Years Before Yoder by Steve Nolt
An Amishman of the Amish: The Reflections of Paton Yoder by Paton Yoder
An Anniversary Celebration Notebook by John Bender

“An Unscriptural Passion” or “A Mighty Power”: The Advent of Sunday Schools in the Mennonite Church    by John E. Sharp
"Bloody Theater" and Christian Discipleship, by Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast
Conferences and Congregations: A Review of Mennonite Church Polity by James M. Lapp
“Der Weiss” Jonas Stutzmann: Amish Pioneer and  Mystic by Greg Hartzler-Miller

"Did not our hearts burn within us?" Reflections at the end of a journey by Robert Kreider
Drinking Anabaptist Tea and Other Tales of Integration, by Peter J. Dyck
Harmony Revisited by Larry D. Rohrer
Hightlights of the Mennonite Church General Assemblies, 1971-1999 by Ron Byler
Historic Events and Highlights at Nashville 2001
Illinois Amish Interpretive Center by Wilmer Otto

In the Footsteps of Clayton Kratz by Sidney King
Katharina Hiebert: Manitoban Pioneer Midwife by Regina Doerksen Neufeld
Keeping the Faith: Dynamics of the Amish Movement Since the Division of the 1690s by Roy Kline
Log Cabin Captures a Moment in History by Roxana Currie
Marking Time by Wally Kroeker
Martyrs’ Mirror or Bloody Theater by James W. Lowry

Menno Answers His Critics on the Issue of Peace and Violence
More Faces of Menno by John E. Sharp
More on Plockhoy: a "Commonwealth of Love and Equality", by Bart PlantengaNebraska Amish Settlement Revisited by John E. Sharp
Neujahrslied (New Year's Song) by Jochen Kepper; translated by Dr. James Vanderlaan
Muenster 465 Years Later by John A. Lapp
Nineteenth-century Humility: A Vital Message for Today?, by Theron Schlabach
Open Windows: English Quakers View European Mennonites by Harold D. Lehman
Ora Troyer: Steward of His Community’s History by Dennis Stoesz
Pioneering at Mayton by Beulah Stauffer Hostetler
Plain People and the Refinement of America by Steve Nolt
Present at the Inception: Menno Simons and the Beginnings of Dutch Anabaptism by Abraham Friesen
Reading Between the Lines: Stories of Women Leaders in the Franconia Conference by Mary Jane Hershey
Seeking a Home: Entering and Leaving Manitoba by Adolf Ens
Telling A Story That Has Told Me by Ron Kennel
Tension on the Homefront: One Mennonite Community's Experience During World War II by Franklin Yoder
The Baseball Commissioner and the Mennonites, by Steve Nolt
The Effects of an MC-GC Merger on Archives and Historical Activities by John D. Thiesen
The Master and the Mennonites or "Did Anslo Make it?" by Julia Kasdorf
The Mystery of the Plockhoy Settlement in the Valley of Swans by Bart Plantenga
The Portraits of Menno Simons by Irvin B. Horst
The Professor and the Dean, by C. Norman Kraus
The Relevance of Menno Simons for Evangelical Christians by John D. Roth

The Riddle of Things Past by John L. Ruth
The Role and Impact of the Conscience in Anabaptism, by Anne Yoder
The Significance of Menno Simons by H. S. Bender, 1936The Snyder Community at Plainview, Texas, by James A. Snyder
To Make a Point: Stories from History for Preaching, Teaching and Pondering by John E. Sharp
Tourism in Holmes County and the Ministry of Behalt by Susan Biesecker-Mast
Two Anabaptists in the Heartland of Islam, by Kathy Fisher and Al Keim
Why don't we tell the beginning of the Story? by Rich H. Meyer
Will of Syvaert Pietersz, by James W. Lowry