Articles : On My Desk by Lapp
Feb. 6 issue
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Lapp
The uniqueness of Winnipeg
On my desk is At the Forks: Mennonites in Winnipeg by Leo Driedger, published by Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ont., 2010, 473 pages, $29.95.
A sociologist and Mennonite church leader for more than 50 years, Leo Driedger is a retired faculty member at the University of Manitoba. He has written widely on topics such as Mennonite urbanization, professionalization, identity, ethnicity and peacemaking. He co-authored one of the major church member profiles, Mennonite Mosaic: Identity and Modernization (1991).
Jan. 9 issue
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Life between East and West
On my desk is From the Oder to the Bitterroot: Memories of an Uncommon Life by Werner H. Will, published by the author at 3604 Kingbury Place, Missoula, MT 59808, 2011, 321 pages, $12 plus $2.50 postage.
Aug. 8, 2011 issue
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Worship in a secular time
On my desk is Worship and Mission After Christendom by Alan Kreider and Eleanor Kreider, published by Herald Press, 2011, 322 pages, $19.99.
June 6, 2011 issue
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Gentle, activist peacemaker
On my desk is Create Space for Peace: Forty Years of Peacemaking — Gene Stoltzfus, 1940-2010, edited by Dorothy Friesen and Marilen Abesamis, published by TriMark Press, Deerfield Beach, Fla., 255 pages, $16.95.
April 4, 2011 issue
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A struggle with militarism
On my desk is Mennonite German Soldiers: Nation, Religion and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-1880, by Mark Jantzen, published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, 370 pages, $38.
Feb. 14, 2011 issue
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MB story of going global
On my desk is Celebrating 150 Years: The Mennonite Brethren Church Around the World, edited by Abe J. Dueck, published by Pandora Press and Kindred Productions, 2010, 391 pages, $26.99.
Jan. 3, 2011 issue
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Benefits, costs of Amish faith
On my desk is The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-Zercher, published by Jossey-Boss, San Francisco, 2010, 267 pages, $24.95.
Sept. 27, 2010 issue
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The most dangerous book
On my desk is Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics and Devotion in the Book of Revelation by J. Nelson Kraybill, published by Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, Mich., 2010, 224 pages, $21.99.
Aug. 2, 2010 issue
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Stripped to essential core
On my desk is The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith by Stuart Murray, published by Herald Press, 192 pages, $13.99.
May 10, 2010 issue
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Doctor’s view of health care
On my desk is Empowering the Patient: How to Reduce the Cost of Healthcare and Improve Its Quality by Glen E. Miller, M.D., Dog Ear Publishing, $14.95, available online.
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