Suffering under the Soviets
Village houses face the main street with barns attached behind and fields beyond that. Young people gather for “singings.” A bone setter relieves headaches by carefully manipulating the neck. These are all aspects of Mennonite life in Russia as presented by Janice L. Dick in her new novel, Other Side of the River. They resonate…
Rewriting History
I’ve been borrowing books from the Mennonite Church Canada Resource Centre and highly recommend their “recommended titles.” Recently, I finished Emma LaRocque’s “When the Other is Me.” According to one summary online, in this book, “Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from…
Book Review – Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy
Ronald E. Osborn. Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith Violence, and Theodicy (Cascade Books, 2010). Osborn’s short collection of essays is one of the more eclectic publications I have read in some time. Faith and violence are indeed the mingled themes that bind this work together; having said that, however, the collection is somewhat nomadic…
Book Review – Exploring the Politics of Christian Mission
Nathan R. Kerr, Christ, History and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission (Cascade, 2008) While the release date of Nate Kerr’s first work is barely over a year old I feel quite late in offering a review. Kerr has had a significant web presence himself while this book has also experienced substantial engagement (see here,…
