2016, vol. 70

• Editor’s note

  by Rachel Epp Buller

Robert Kreider, in memoriam

• Kreider bridged denominations, institutions, centuries

  by Melanie Zuercher

• Fears in Solitude

  by Jesse Nathan

• A Boat in a Tree; Limestone, Hedge, Prairie: Robert S. Kreider and the Fidelity of Place

  by Brad S. Born

On Writing and Performing in Prison

• Inside Stories: Documenting Corrections in College Theater

  by John McCabe-Juhnke

• “My Mind Opened with the Cell Door”: Higher Education beyond Campus

  by Ami Regier

• Interview with Libby Schrag, director of Offender Victim Ministries

  by Rachel Epp Buller

Contemporary Mennonite Scholarship

• Prelude: All People? Or, An Anabaptist Anasermon for All Saints’ Day

  by Jeff Gundy

• Mennonite/s Writing: Explorations and Exposition

  by Jeff Gundy

• Postlude: Somewhere Near Defiance

  by Jeff Gundy

• Stephen Beachy’s boneyard, the Martyrs Mirror, and Anabaptist Activism

  by Daniel Shank Cruz

• A Comparative Analysis of Church Conflict: An Introduction to Wilhelm Mannhardt’s 1868 ‘Objective Discussion’ on Prussian Mennonites at the Cusp of Including Soldiers as Church Members in Good Standing

  by Mark Jantzen

• The Resolution of November 9, 1867, by the North German Confederation Diet Concerning the Lifting of the Military Service Exemption of the Mennonites and the Current Attitudes of the Mennonites of Provincial Prussia to the Same

  by Wilhelm Mannhardt

• “Love to all, Bayard Rustin”: Mennonites and the mind behind the March on Washington

  by Melanie Zuercher

• The Swiss-Volhynian Mennonite Worshiping Community: Scripture, Laity and God

  by Jacob Kaufman

Student Writing

• For the sake of peace, please remember that not all terrorists are Muslim

  by Jacob Miller

• The Growth and Decline of the Alta Community: A Case Study of Dead and Dying Towns in Kansas

  by Renae Stucky

• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: Reflections of an Intern in Community at Bethel College Mennonite Church

  by Allie Shoup

Student Writing — Cornelius Krahn Contest Winners

• When the Walls Have Ears — First Place

  by Kristin Jantzen

• Intersection of Genealogy and History — Second Place

  by Marissa Hofer

• A Prayer They Need — Third Place

  by Inda Piroli

Book Matter

• Review: After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America

  by Brad S. Born

• Review: Magpie’s Blanket: A Novel

  by Brad S. Born

• Review: Abandoned Homeland

  by Siobhan Scarry

• Review: Identitätskonstruktionen russlanddeutscher Mennoniten im Spiegel ihrer Literatur

  by Merle Schlabaugh

• Review: Between 2 Gods: Memoir of Abuse in the Mennonite Community

  by Melanie Springer Mock

Responses to Jeff Gundy’s Songs from an Empty Cage from a Pastor, a Teacher, and a Literary Critic

• Preface

  by Karen Sheriff LeVan

• On Writing of Faith Broken Open and Other Evidences of Love

  by Jennifer Sears

• Songs from an Empty Cage as Literary Criticism and Theology

  by Daniel Shank Cruz

• From Mystery to Love: Responding to Songs from an Empty Cage

  by John Tyson

Call for Papers

• Crossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries
• I’ve Got the Power! Naming and Reclaiming Power as a Force for Good

Bibliography

• Mennonite Bibliography, 2015

  by Barbara A. Thiesen