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CMU Press is an academic publisher of scholarly, reference, and general interest books at Canadian Mennonite University. Books from CMU Press address and inform interests and issues vital to the university, its constituency, and society. Areas of specialization include Mennonite studies, and works that are church-oriented or theologically engaged.

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	On the Zwieback Trail A Russian Mennonite Alphabet of Stories, Recipes and Historic Events Lisa Weaver, Julie Kauffman, Judith Rempel Smucker CMU Press 2011\| 72 pages, hardcover \| $25.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-92-6 On the Zwieback Trail is a delightful and informative children’s alphabet book of Russian Mennonite history, lovingly assembled as attractive collages of artefacts, historical narratives, photographs, recipes, and personal anecdotes of the past. Every page has something new to offer—whether it’s the meaning of the word “Anabaptist”, the role tractors played in the story of Mennonite Central Committee, or a delicious recipe for fluffy zwieback, this alphabet book is sure to charm and educate children and adults alike. Anyone with Verenike strengthening their muscles and Borscht flowing in their veins knows that Z could only stand for Zwieback. Join a voyage of discovery down the alphabet trail to celebrate the history, culture, and service of this branch of Anabaptist believers. From the early 1500s to the present, it's all there for young and old to enjoy. Katie Funk Wiebe, author of You Never Gave Me a Name: One Mennonite Woman’s Story
	David’s Trip to Paraguay/Davids Reise in das Land der vielen Farben Miriam Rudolph CMU Press 2011\| 32 pages, hardcover \| English and German \| $22.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-91-9 This is a gorgeous book by exciting young artist, inspired by the extraordinary journey made by her grandfather from Canada to Paraguay in the late 1920s. David, a farm boy from Southern Manitoba, is excited when his family, in search of a new home, decides to leave wintry and white Canada behind to start a long journey by train, ship, and oxcart to South America. Along the way he takes in colourful impressions of New York’s skyscrapers, the ocean, flying fish, crocodiles, foreign cities, and many more exciting things that let him know he is going the right way. This is an exceptional children’s book, but also a beautiful art work for all ages. In addition, the dual-language text (English and German) adds a valuable educational dimension. To see Miriam's work as an artist and printmaker, please visit her website, www.miriamrudolph.com.
	New Books
	Peace and Justice: Essays from the Fourth Shi’i Muslim Mennonite Christian Dialogue Harry J. Huebner and Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen, editors CMU Press 2011 \| 277 pages, paper \| $27.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-89-6 While the goal of inter-religious dialogue is sometimes thought to be a single religious understanding, that proves to be a mistake, and a dangerous one, because of its tendency to impose closure not warranted by intellectual honesty. The current dialogue is lodged in another pursuit; of freely giving each person the voice to speak for his or her faith tradition. . . . This posture of open engagement might be said to be a mode of peacemaking; a way of engaging difference that is very far from the all too common view of the other as dispensable enemy. The dialogue over the past ten years is in fact testimony to the refusal to permit the powers of division to define for us who our enemies are. To put it positively, it is an admission that we have become friends and that difference does not negate the possibility of trust and deep and lasting friendship. From the Introduction
	Favoured among Women Hedy Leonora Martens CMU Press 2010 \| 430 pages, paper \| $25.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-88-9 Book Discussion Resource for Book Clubs A detailed and touching portrait of a Mennonite woman during the harsh early years of Soviet Russia. Winnipeg Free Press This vibrant and unusual re-creation of one woman’s life is the result of years of painstaking research and interviews. Favoured among Women combines biography, personal reflection, poetry, historical commentary, and (above all) vivid storytelling. We meet Greta Enns as a curious, observant, and compassionate child born in peaceful times which are soon torn asunder. Her life becomes one of hardship and the utter confusion of war, but one also marked by profound religious hope, as well as love and joy. Hedy Leonora Martens has written a novel both epic and intimate, dramatically presenting daily life in Leninist and Stalinist Russia in the first decades of the twentieth century.
	Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance: From Ancient Monks to Mountain Refugees Belden C. Lane CMU Press 2011 \| 72 pages, paper \| $14.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-90-2 These three lectures by accomplished storyteller and theologian Belden Lane are inspirational in a way that lectures rarely are. Lane urges us to think courageously about the place of wilderness in Christian life. He contemplates the radical lives of the fourth century Desert Fathers and Mothers, as well as the courageous example of sixteenth-century Anabaptists. He speaks of the ways in which wilderness can relate to the practice of a counter-cultural spirituality today. And he asks: Can desert and mountain gift us with a language to understand the experiences in our lives when we're taken to the edge, finding ourselves isolated and alone, both spiritually and culturally?
	The Free Church and Israel’s Covenant Peter Ochs 2010 \| 125 pages, paper \| $16.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-87-2 These four lectures offer groundwork for a Mennonite-Jewish theological dialogue. One context for the dialogue is a sphere of overlapping interests among Jews and Mennonites who have returned to consider the power of Scripture at a time when both secularism and radical anti-secularism have lost their luster. Another context is the publication of John Howard Yoder’s The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited. Yet another context is an emerging effort among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars to meet together in peace and through conversations about Scripture. A final context is the on-going loss of life, justice, and hope in Israel-Palestine. The Free Church and Israel’s Covenant introduces Mennonite-Jewish theological dialogue as a contribution to the work of inter-Abrahamic peace, and scriptural truth.
	The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation Chris K. Huebner & Tripp York, Editors Foreword by John Milbank CMU Press 2010 \| 240 pages, paper \| $29.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-85-8 Click here for press release or Download Media Kit What hath the Radical Reformation to do with Anglo-Catholics—especially Anglicans who have a lingering penchant for Christendom? The answer from this book: a lot more than you might expect! Huebner and York have staged a mutually critical interaction between Radical Orthodoxy and Mennonite theology, illuminating both as a result. James K. A. Smith, Calvin College, author of Introducing Radical Orthodoxy & editor of Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition “This book is a breath of fresh air. Retrieving central themes of classical theology, it is both faithful to tradition and innovative, offering a third way between liberalism and conservatism, one which sees theology as critical for public life without privatizing Christianity, on the one hand, or slipping into Constantinianism, on the other.” A. James Reimer, Conrad Grebel University College, author of Mennonites and Classical Theology: Dogmatic Foundations for Christian Ethics & The Dogmatic Imagination: The Dynamics of Christian Belief Chris K. Huebner is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University. He is the author of A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, and Identity (Herald Press, 2006) and co-editor, with Peter Dula, of The New Yoder (Wipf & Stock, 2010). Tripp York is an Instructor of Religious Studies at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is the author of The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom (Herald Press, 2007) and Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the 20th Century (Wipf & Stock, 2009).
	This Hidden Thing Dora Dueck CMU Press 2010 \| 350 pages, paper \| $19.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-86-5 Click here for PDF press release or Download Media Kit Book Discussion Resource for Book Clubs Reviews of This Hidden Thing PDF Winner, 2010 McNally Robinson Book of the Year, Manitoba Book Awards This Hidden Thing is a lyrical and moving novel that offers one woman’s compelling, ordinary, and surprising life. Dora Dueck is author of the novel Under the Still Standing Sun and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada. Her stories have been featured on CBC Radio, and in journals such as Room, Prairie Fire, Rhubarb, and Journal of Mennonite Studies. She lives in Winnipeg.
	Literary Criticism
	West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature Sue Sorensen, Editor 2008; 340 pages; paperback; $28.95 ISBN 978-0-920718-81-0 Click here for press release Reviews of West of Eden PDF These 17 essays ponder the character of prairie literature. What is prairie literature now, what has it been, and what is its future? That the prairies are “west of Eden” is an idea only, and a somewhat mischievous one. Is this spot distant from the glory of the garden? Writers have often pondered the ambiguous sanctity of the prairies, while those who recruited settlers certainly exploited the notion. These varied essays engage with Margaret Laurence, Rudy Wiebe, and Neil Young. They present analysis of NFB films and the gopher as icon. Here are strategies for teaching and views of the Canadian prairies from abroad. This is a significant collection of fresh views of prairie literature.

J. J. Thiessen Annual Lectures

Joel James Shuman. To Live is to Worship: Bioethics and the Body of Christ
In these wide-ranging and open-hearted lectures from 2006, Shuman, a professor of ethics, overturns expectations that medicine and worship have little in common. Shuman insists that medicine be in conversation with all of creation, instead of oriented to the individual, and that we resist the temptation to worship the medical industry. 2007; 86 pages; pb; $16.95. ISBN 978-0-920718-79-7
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Paul J. Griffiths. The Vice of Curiosity: An Essay on Intellectual Appetite
In the 2005 lectures the Schmitt Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago urges vigilance about the ambiguous delights of mere curiosity and also about our inclination to see knowledge as something that can be owned, rather than seen as a gift from God. 2006; 96 pages; pb. $16.95 ISBN 978-0-920718-77-3

The volume is worth attentive—dare I say contemplative—reading by any who are concerned with the philosophy and theology of Christian education....[T]his set of lectures offers plenty to whet the studious intellectual appetite.
David I. Smith, Journal of Education and Christian Belief

William P. Brown. God & the Imagination: A Primer to Reading the Psalms in an Age of Pluralism
In the 2000 Lectures the Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, develops the use of metaphorical imagination in the interpretation of the Psalms.
2001; 102 pp.; pb. $8.00. Sale Price $4.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-69-8

T.D. Regehr. Peace, Order & Good Government: Mennonites & Politics in Canada
The 1999 Lectures, by the author of volume 3 of the Mennonites in Canada series, explore the increasing Canadian Mennonite involvement in elected governmental positions across the entire political spectrum. Regehr examines ways in which the participants’ theology impacts how they became involved.
2000; 130 pp.; pb. $8.00. Sale Price $4.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-62-9

Richard B. Hays. New Testament Ethics: The Story Retold
The 1997 Lectures by Professor Hays of Duke University Divinity School presents the substance of several chapters of his The Moral Vision of the New Testament.
1998; 82 pp.; pb. $8.00. Sale Price $4.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-61-2

Mennonite Studies

Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites
John J. Friesen
2007; 240 pages; paperback, $32.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-78-0
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A comprehensive and accessible history of Manitoba Mennonites from the 19th century to the present day, witnessing to their diversity, faithfulness, and resilience. Generously illustrated with photographs and maps. An important contribution to the history of Manitoba.

2007 winner of the Manitoba Day Award of the Association for Manitoba Archives
Finalist for the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards, 2008

Adolf Ens. Becoming a National Church: A History of the Conference of
Mennonite in Canada
This book presents an overview of the formation and development of a
church family with two German-speaking founding partners in 1902 to 238
congregations that together became a full-fledged Canadian church.
2004; 258 pp.; maps, photos, index; pb. $25.00. Sale price $10.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-73-5

T.D. Regehr, J.I. Regehr. For Everything a Season: A History of the Alexanderkrone Zentralschule
A unique collaboration of a professional historian with an eyewitness participant who brought along an unusual set of documents from the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
1988; 162 pp.; maps & photos; hc. $24.00. Sale price $8.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-25-4

Klaas Peters. The Bergthaler Mennonites. Volume 3 of the Bergthaler Historical Series.
Peters’ fascinating story of one group’s experiences on the long journey from southern Russia to Manitoba in 1874 includes his account of the ship getting stuck in the ice on Lake Superior. A biography of the author by Leonard Doell shows the extensive influence of Peters as a land agent.
1988; 92 pp.; photos; pb. Sale price $4.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-23-0

Biography

A President's Journey: The Memoirs of Henry Poettcker
2009 | 230 pages, paper | $26.50
ISBN 978-0-920718-83-4
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Dr. Henry Poettcker’s memoirs recount his passage from a Russian Mennonite farm boy to the president of Canadian Mennonite Bible College (now CMU) and the president of Mennonite Biblical Seminary (now AMBS). Under his leadership, both institutions experienced major development and growth, and yet, where others would boast of such accomplishments, Dr. Poettcker reveals a modest life of devotion to God.

A Generation of Vigilance: The Lives & Work of Johannes and Tina Harder
T. D. Regehr
2009; 340 pages; paperback; $29.50
ISBN 978-0-920718-82-7
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For three decades Johannes Harder was the best known leader among Mennonite Brethren in British Columbia. Written with care by respected scholar T.D. Regehr, this biography traces the legacy left by Johannes and Tina as well as their experience as Russian immigrants in early 20th Century British Columbia.

Sometimes controversial because of the way the couple tried to maintain strict codes of Christian conduct, the Harders are also remembered for their positive contributions. Johannes was acknowledged to be a tireless worker, as a preacher and pastor, and Tina is remembered for her hospitality and generosity. Although circumstances differed greatly between Russia and Western Canada, it has been suggested that both the strengths and weakness of their ministry in British Columbia were rooted in their Russian Mennonite Brethren heritage.

Growing Up in Turbulent Times: Memoirs of Soviet Oppression, Refugee Life in Germany, and Immigrant Adjustment to Canada
Waldemar Janzen
2007, 290 pages, maps & illustrations, paperback, $29.00. ISBN 978-0-920718-80-3
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These memoirs of a boy who lost his father to a Stalinist concentration camp reveal the hardship and hospitality of refugee existence. Dr. Janzen presents times of great historical upheaval as he felt them when young: the longing for the holy, and an intellectual yearning that led to his life as a respected scholar and teacher.

Siegfried Bartel. Living with Conviction: German Army Captain Turns to Cultivating Peace
Traces the story of one man’s struggle to overcome guilt and become convinced that the way of peace is the only alternative to war.
1994; 212 pp.; maps & photos; pb. Sale price $7.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-51-3

Esther Epp-Tiessen. J.J. Thiessen: A Leader for His Time
Thiessen was a long-time chairman of Conference of Mennonites in Canada and promoter of post-secondary theological education. He was also active on MCC and General Conference committees with special interest in immigration and missions.
2001; 346 pp.; map & photos; pb. Sale price $10.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-71-1

Gerry Peters, trans. & ed. Diary of Anna Baerg 1916–1924
A popular eyewitness account of the turbulent revolution years in Russia, told by an articulate young working-class woman whose diary entries reflect penetrating awareness and sensitivity.
1985; 158 pp.; with photos; pb. Sale price $4.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-09-4

Theology and Bible

New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology
Abe Dueck, Helmut Harder, Karl Koop, Editors
CMU Press 2010 | 330 pages, paper | $29.50
ISBN 978-0-920718-84-1
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How can the Believers Church family (made up of Baptists, Brethren, Churches of Christ, Churches of God, Mennonites, Pentecostals, and others) remain accountable to the Gospel amidst competing forces of globalization and localization?

These essays engage Believers Church theology with topics such as denominationalism, the sacramental tradition, the Emerging Church movement, and Global Christianity. In a spirit of critical dialogue, this volume revisits debates over the relationship between church and world, individual and community, and practices related to the church’s mission.

Gordon Zerbe, editor. Reclaiming the Old Testament: Essays in Honour of Waldemar Janzen
Old Testament scholars, theologians from other disciplines and colleagues of Janzen at Canadian Mennonite Bible College contributed to this volume. A sub-theme explores the use of the Old Testament in Mennonite school and church.
2001; 266 pp.; pb. $20.00. Sale Price $10.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-70-4

Harry Huebner, editor. Mennonite Education in a Post-Christian World
Essays presented at the Consultation on Higher Education, Winnipeg, June 1997. Presenters include Nancy Murphy, Gerald Gerbrandt, J.Denny Weaver, Ted Koontz, Dale Schrag, Tom Yoder Neufeld, Shirley Showalter, Shirley Sprinjger King.
1998; 166 pp.; pb. $12.00. Sale price $6.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-59-9

John H. Neufeld. The Story That Shapes Us: Sermons
A selection of sermons preached over a period of time and a range of occasions by a pastor, former college president and homiletics professor who has spent a lifetime giving attention to both form and content of his sermons.
1997; 162 pp.; pb. $10.00. Sale Price $5.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-56-8

Harry Huebner & David Schroeder. Church as Parable: Whatever Happened to Ethics?
A look at the way the church has responded to issues of morality and ethics. The authors offer a critique and build a case for an ethical approach based on scripture and the centrality of God and Jesus Christ.
1993; 140 pp.; pb. $20.00. Sale price $10.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-46-9

Harry Huebner, editor. The Church as Theological Community: Essays in Honour of David Schroeder
Twelve essays by prominent academics and church leaders on themes that inform the life and work of teacher, theologian and churchman, David Schroeder.
1990; 314 pp.; hc. $20.00. Sale price $10.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-31-5

Out of Print

If you are interested in the following Out of Print books, please contact us at cmupress@cmu.ca

Leonard Doell. The Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Saskatchewan 1892–1975
Menno H. Epp. The Pastor’s Exit: The Dynamics of Involuntary Termination
Helena Goossen Friesen. Daydreams and Nightmares: Life on the Wintergruen Estate
Henry J. Gerbrandt. Enroute: The Memoirs
Henry Neufeld & Elna Neufeld. By God’s Grace: Ministry with Native People in Pauingassi
Olga Rempel. Siberian Diary of Aron P. Toews
Paul J. Schaefer. Heinrich H. Ewert: Teacher, Educator and Minister of the Mennonites
Jake Unrau with Johann D. Funk. Living in the Way: The Pilgrimage of Jake & Trudi Unrau
Helmut Harder. Anleitung zum Glauben
David Schroeder. Anleitung zum Bibelstudium
Fritz Senn (Gerhard Friesen). Gesammelte Gedichte und Prosa
Echo Historical Series. Contact the Mennonite Heritage Centre at 204-888-6781 or email: archives@mennonitechurch.ca

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	On the Zwieback Trail A Russian Mennonite Alphabet of Stories, Recipes and Historic Events Lisa Weaver, Julie Kauffman, Judith Rempel Smucker CMU Press 2011\| 72 pages, hardcover \| $25.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-92-6 On the Zwieback Trail is a delightful and informative children’s alphabet book of Russian Mennonite history, lovingly assembled as attractive collages of artefacts, historical narratives, photographs, recipes, and personal anecdotes of the past. Every page has something new to offer—whether it’s the meaning of the word “Anabaptist”, the role tractors played in the story of Mennonite Central Committee, or a delicious recipe for fluffy zwieback, this alphabet book is sure to charm and educate children and adults alike. Anyone with Verenike strengthening their muscles and Borscht flowing in their veins knows that Z could only stand for Zwieback. Join a voyage of discovery down the alphabet trail to celebrate the history, culture, and service of this branch of Anabaptist believers. From the early 1500s to the present, it's all there for young and old to enjoy. Katie Funk Wiebe, author of You Never Gave Me a Name: One Mennonite Woman’s Story
	David’s Trip to Paraguay/Davids Reise in das Land der vielen Farben Miriam Rudolph CMU Press 2011\| 32 pages, hardcover \| English and German \| $22.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-91-9 This is a gorgeous book by exciting young artist, inspired by the extraordinary journey made by her grandfather from Canada to Paraguay in the late 1920s. David, a farm boy from Southern Manitoba, is excited when his family, in search of a new home, decides to leave wintry and white Canada behind to start a long journey by train, ship, and oxcart to South America. Along the way he takes in colourful impressions of New York’s skyscrapers, the ocean, flying fish, crocodiles, foreign cities, and many more exciting things that let him know he is going the right way. This is an exceptional children’s book, but also a beautiful art work for all ages. In addition, the dual-language text (English and German) adds a valuable educational dimension. To see Miriam's work as an artist and printmaker, please visit her website, www.miriamrudolph.com.
	New Books
	Peace and Justice: Essays from the Fourth Shi’i Muslim Mennonite Christian Dialogue Harry J. Huebner and Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen, editors CMU Press 2011 \| 277 pages, paper \| $27.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-89-6 While the goal of inter-religious dialogue is sometimes thought to be a single religious understanding, that proves to be a mistake, and a dangerous one, because of its tendency to impose closure not warranted by intellectual honesty. The current dialogue is lodged in another pursuit; of freely giving each person the voice to speak for his or her faith tradition. . . . This posture of open engagement might be said to be a mode of peacemaking; a way of engaging difference that is very far from the all too common view of the other as dispensable enemy. The dialogue over the past ten years is in fact testimony to the refusal to permit the powers of division to define for us who our enemies are. To put it positively, it is an admission that we have become friends and that difference does not negate the possibility of trust and deep and lasting friendship. From the Introduction
	Favoured among Women Hedy Leonora Martens CMU Press 2010 \| 430 pages, paper \| $25.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-88-9 Book Discussion Resource for Book Clubs A detailed and touching portrait of a Mennonite woman during the harsh early years of Soviet Russia. Winnipeg Free Press This vibrant and unusual re-creation of one woman’s life is the result of years of painstaking research and interviews. Favoured among Women combines biography, personal reflection, poetry, historical commentary, and (above all) vivid storytelling. We meet Greta Enns as a curious, observant, and compassionate child born in peaceful times which are soon torn asunder. Her life becomes one of hardship and the utter confusion of war, but one also marked by profound religious hope, as well as love and joy. Hedy Leonora Martens has written a novel both epic and intimate, dramatically presenting daily life in Leninist and Stalinist Russia in the first decades of the twentieth century.
	Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance: From Ancient Monks to Mountain Refugees Belden C. Lane CMU Press 2011 \| 72 pages, paper \| $14.00 ISBN 978-0-920718-90-2 These three lectures by accomplished storyteller and theologian Belden Lane are inspirational in a way that lectures rarely are. Lane urges us to think courageously about the place of wilderness in Christian life. He contemplates the radical lives of the fourth century Desert Fathers and Mothers, as well as the courageous example of sixteenth-century Anabaptists. He speaks of the ways in which wilderness can relate to the practice of a counter-cultural spirituality today. And he asks: Can desert and mountain gift us with a language to understand the experiences in our lives when we're taken to the edge, finding ourselves isolated and alone, both spiritually and culturally?
	The Free Church and Israel’s Covenant Peter Ochs 2010 \| 125 pages, paper \| $16.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-87-2 These four lectures offer groundwork for a Mennonite-Jewish theological dialogue. One context for the dialogue is a sphere of overlapping interests among Jews and Mennonites who have returned to consider the power of Scripture at a time when both secularism and radical anti-secularism have lost their luster. Another context is the publication of John Howard Yoder’s The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited. Yet another context is an emerging effort among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars to meet together in peace and through conversations about Scripture. A final context is the on-going loss of life, justice, and hope in Israel-Palestine. The Free Church and Israel’s Covenant introduces Mennonite-Jewish theological dialogue as a contribution to the work of inter-Abrahamic peace, and scriptural truth.
	The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation Chris K. Huebner & Tripp York, Editors Foreword by John Milbank CMU Press 2010 \| 240 pages, paper \| $29.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-85-8 Click here for press release or Download Media Kit What hath the Radical Reformation to do with Anglo-Catholics—especially Anglicans who have a lingering penchant for Christendom? The answer from this book: a lot more than you might expect! Huebner and York have staged a mutually critical interaction between Radical Orthodoxy and Mennonite theology, illuminating both as a result. James K. A. Smith, Calvin College, author of Introducing Radical Orthodoxy & editor of Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition “This book is a breath of fresh air. Retrieving central themes of classical theology, it is both faithful to tradition and innovative, offering a third way between liberalism and conservatism, one which sees theology as critical for public life without privatizing Christianity, on the one hand, or slipping into Constantinianism, on the other.” A. James Reimer, Conrad Grebel University College, author of Mennonites and Classical Theology: Dogmatic Foundations for Christian Ethics & The Dogmatic Imagination: The Dynamics of Christian Belief Chris K. Huebner is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University. He is the author of A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, and Identity (Herald Press, 2006) and co-editor, with Peter Dula, of The New Yoder (Wipf & Stock, 2010). Tripp York is an Instructor of Religious Studies at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is the author of The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom (Herald Press, 2007) and Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the 20th Century (Wipf & Stock, 2009).
	This Hidden Thing Dora Dueck CMU Press 2010 \| 350 pages, paper \| $19.50 ISBN 978-0-920718-86-5 Click here for PDF press release or Download Media Kit Book Discussion Resource for Book Clubs Reviews of This Hidden Thing PDF Winner, 2010 McNally Robinson Book of the Year, Manitoba Book Awards This Hidden Thing is a lyrical and moving novel that offers one woman’s compelling, ordinary, and surprising life. Dora Dueck is author of the novel Under the Still Standing Sun and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada. Her stories have been featured on CBC Radio, and in journals such as Room, Prairie Fire, Rhubarb, and Journal of Mennonite Studies. She lives in Winnipeg.
	Literary Criticism
	West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature Sue Sorensen, Editor 2008; 340 pages; paperback; $28.95 ISBN 978-0-920718-81-0 Click here for press release Reviews of West of Eden PDF These 17 essays ponder the character of prairie literature. What is prairie literature now, what has it been, and what is its future? That the prairies are “west of Eden” is an idea only, and a somewhat mischievous one. Is this spot distant from the glory of the garden? Writers have often pondered the ambiguous sanctity of the prairies, while those who recruited settlers certainly exploited the notion. These varied essays engage with Margaret Laurence, Rudy Wiebe, and Neil Young. They present analysis of NFB films and the gopher as icon. Here are strategies for teaching and views of the Canadian prairies from abroad. This is a significant collection of fresh views of prairie literature.