Valerie Weaver-Zercher
Eat with Joy, by Rachel Marie Stone
Sacrament of friendship
Chaste romance: The lure of Amish fiction
The Book of Mormon Girl, by Joanna Brooks
The lure of Jonestown
Living into Focus, by Arthur Boers
My fifth-grade son used to walk around the house pretending to be texting....
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair and The Reading Promise
A review of In Cheap We Trust and The Cheapskate Next Door
As part of a tradition noted for its thrift, I can be a little sensitive about the word cheap....
A Book of Silence
Introverts who read Sara Maitland’s new book about silence may need to recommit themselves to the commandment not to covet....
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Having buried close to 200 young people who were killed in gang violence, Gregory Boyle could be pardoned for a lot: despa...
Nightwatch/Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
That an adult convert to a religious community of plain people w...
Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality
Growing up in a Mennonite conference in Pennsylvania that didn’t ordain women, I met plenty of folks like my moth...
The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok
"Water to wine” is the image that journalist Greg Barrett uses to describe the transformation in the...
Close quarters: Life in a not-so-big house
We had a new bunk bed delivered recently, and our sons spent a happy afternoon—albeit a dangerous one—wielding socket wrenches and screwdrivers as we put it together....
Expanded territory
"Ruin” is the title of the prologue to this memoir by wilderness activist Amy Irvine, and indeed, ruins—both material and metaph...