A Christian Social Perspective on the Family LISA SOWLE CAHILL* Abstract: A truly Christian family identity should not isolate families from “the real world” but should convert families to love the neighbor and serve others. Yet the “family values” rhetoric in much public discourse too often leads in other directions.
IN MEMORIAM: John A. Hostetler, 1918-2001 THE MENNONITE QUARTERLY REVIEW regrets to announce the death of John Andrew Hostetler of Goshen, IN, leading scholar of Amish and Hutterite societies. He died on August 28, 2001 at the age of 82. Born on October 29, 1918 in…
Ontario’s Conference of Historic Peace Church Families and the “Joy of Service” LUCILLE MARR* Abstract: This essay briefly examines the family relationships of four executive leaders of the Conference of Historic Peace Churches (CHPC) in order to raise questions about the gendered nature of service. Following a review and interpretation…
Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Confessions of a Mennonite Camp Follower STANLEY M. HAUERWAS* GETTING TO KNOW YOU, GETTING TO KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU[1] I am aware that I have a certain reputation among Mennonites. I felt honored that…
Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Anabaptism and the Obstacles That Make for Vocation RODNEY CLAPP[*] “Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you . . .
Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Embodying the Gospel in Community RICHARD B. HAYS* One thing I have learned from the Radical Reformers is that theological thought can never be separated from its embodiment in concrete communities of worship and service. Thus, when asked…
Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four Anabaptism and Radical Christianity CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND* In writing this contribution for the Mennonite Quarterly Review I find myself returning to a task several of us in the United Kingdom engaged in a couple of years ago.[1]…
Contents of Volume LXXIV October 2000 Number Four The Radical Road One Baptist Took JAMES WM. MCCLENDON, JR.* I was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1924, the son of a Methodist father and a Baptist mother. My parents faithfully attended their respective churches, but motherhood being…
Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One The Mennonite Year in Review: Mennonites in the Year 2000 JOHN A. LAPP* Mennonites in the year 2000, although richly diverse, maintain a conspicuous sense of peoplehood. The Mennonite World Conference (MWC) reported in July that there are…
Contents of Volume LXXIV January 2001 Number One The Amish “Mission Movement” and the Reformulation of Amish Identity in the Twentieth Century STEVE NOLT[*] Abstract: During the middle of the twentieth…
