Oct. 5, 2009 issue
Book answers the quirky questions
By Mennonite Mission Network staffSCOTTDALE, Pa. — What do Mennonites believe in? Who started it? Are Mennonites allowed to fight people that attack them? Why do they live the way they do?
Jodi Nisly Hertzler answers the most common and interesting questions received at www.thirdway.com.
Would it be OK if I became a Mennonite?
A new book provides not only the questions, but the answers.
Third Way Café, a ministry on behalf of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada, under the sponsorship of Mennonite Mission Network’s Third Way Media division, receives questions like this on a daily basis. Thanks to the Internet, people anywhere in the world can satisfy their curiosity, seek out spiritual guidance, or just research essays for school without the pressure of the face-to-face interview or the potential embarrassment of a so-called “stupid” question.
Jody Nisly Hertzler, a member of Community Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Va., answers most of the questions that come to Third Way Café. Her answers to 50 of the most commonly asked questions — the FAQs about Mennonites — have been collected in a book to be released in late October, Ask Third Way Cafe: 50 Common and Quirky Questions about Mennonites, from Cascadia Publishing House.
Hertzler’s answers have been praised as engaging and invitational by book reviewers.
Author and evangelist Myron S. Augsburger wrote, “As Mennonites, we are often known for our culture more than for our faith. This presentation of questions and answers as a ministry of The Third Way Cafe makes that evident, helps us to understand the problem of communication, and serves to help in correction.”
The 84-page book is available through Third Way Media or through Cascadia Publishing House.
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