Mennonite Life

summer 2012, vol. 66

• Editor's Note
• Cornelius and Hilda Krahn Mennonite Life Endowment Fund

  by Marianne Krahn Miller




Grace Hill Mennonite Church Bicentennial Anniversary Series

• Anabaptist Europe in the Sixteenth Century

  Part I

  by Lois Y. Barrett

• Anabaptist Europe in the Seventeenth Century

  Part II

  by Lois Y. Barrett

• Seeking Out the Crevices in a Rigid Society

  Part III

  by Mark Jantzen

• Squeezed Between Nationalism and Opportunity

  Part IV

  by Mark Jantzen




Creative Writing

• Gelächterkuchen

  by Kirsten Beachy




Contemporary Mennonite Issues

• Making Peace with Abraham

  Sermon

  by Patricia Shelly

• Gathering 'Round to Envision the Future

  by Jennifer Warkentine

• Peace or Persecution: Mennonite Involvement in the Holocaust

  by Alyssa Schrag

• The Cost of Cooperation in the Creation of Hymnal: A Worship Book

  by Austin McCabe-Juhnke

• The Priority of Discipleship: Gordon Kaufman's Mennonite Influences and Influence on Mennonites

  by Melanie Zuercher




John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest High School Category

• Pushing and Pulling: Causes of the Russian Mennonite Migration from South Russia to Kansas in the 1870s

  First-Place Finisher

  by Hillary Harder

• Civilian Public Service

  Second-Place Finisher

  by Jeff Yoder

• A Glimpse of the Lehman Family's Path from Switzerland to Missouri

  Third-Place Finisher

  by Rhena South




About Books

• Book Review: Mennonite German Soldiers: Nation, Religion and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-1880

  by Troy Osborne

• Mennonite Bibliography, 2011

  compiled by Barbara A. Thiesen