Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Mennonite Publishing Network

June 20, 2011 issue

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  Century of publishing ends in Scottdale

  SCOTTDALE, Pa. — For more than a century, this Appalachian community has provided a home for Mennonite publishing. This summer, that era is ending.

  The Mennonite Publishing House building — which once housed rumbling presses and clattering typewriters staffed by more than 100 employees writing, editing and printing books and magazines for the Mennonite Church and others — is closing its doors this month.

May 16, 2011 issue

• New cookbook meets high expectations

  Three days before the official release date of May 2 for Mennonite Girls Can Cook, Herald Press officials were already ordering a reprint.

April 25, 2011 issue

• Former book editor dies at 75 in Harrisonburg

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Paul M. Schrock, a writer and editor who nurtured hundreds of authors at Mennonite Publishing House, died April 18 as a result of head injuries sustained in a fall April 15. He was 75.

Feb. 14, 2011 issue

• Couple tell how to be Christian after Christendom

  What does it mean to be a Christian in a post-Christendom era — a time when society no longer supports or promotes Christianity?

Dec. 13, 2010 issue

• Paul Longacre looks back on what ‘Living More with Less’ meant to his wife, Doris

  On the publication of Living More with Less: 30th Anniversary Edition, Doris Janzen Longacre’s husband, Paul, reflects on the publication of the More-with-Less Cookbook and the original Living More with Less. Doris died in 1979, before the book was finished.

Oct. 25, 2010 issue

• ‘The Naked Anabaptist’ is a best-seller

  WATERLOO, Ont., and SCOTTDALE, Pa. — With more than 4,700 sold, The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith, is a best-seller for Herald Press, the book imprint of Mennonite Publishing Network.

Oct. 4, 2010 issue

• MPN and Third Way Media to merge

  PITTSBURGH — Two Mennonite media organizations announced a merger Sept. 23 to consolidate their work in publishing, video, radio and the Internet.

• MPN executive director to retire

  WATERLOO, Ont., and SCOTTDALE, Pa. — When Ron Rempel was named executive director in 2003, Mennonite Publishing Network faced an uncertain future.

July 12, 2010 issue

• MPN bulletins boost worship

  WATERLOO, Ont., and SCOTT­DALE, Pa. — Church bulletins are more than just a place to find the service order and community news.

May 3, 2010 issue

• Three epistles practical today

  SCOTTDALE, Pa. — Immoral behavior, competing religious and ideological beliefs, church members and leaders who fail to live up to the high standards of the gospel.

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