Anabaptist ReMix

Lauren Friesen is the David M. French Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD (with honors) from the Graduate Theological Union. His recent publications include editing Mennonite Ethics: from Isolation to Engagement by J. Lawrence Burkholder and autobiographical essays Prairie Lands, Private Landscapes. Friesen was awarded the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence in University/College Theatre and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Pacific School of Religion. Dennis R. Koehn exemplifies a life of activism, scholarship, and professional impact. He did time in a federal prison for draft resistance, completed undergraduate work with honors, and went to Harvard on a Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship. Koehn, as a management consultant, was known for being "particularly suited to joining business and management skills with theology and the needs of church organizations." Koehn received a PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary with a dissertation on religion and war.

List of Abbreviations – Keith Ratzlaff: Three Angels – Preface – Dennis R. Koehn: Introduction – Dennis R. Koehn: New Perspectives on Human Nature and Images of the Divine – Maxwell Kennel: Secular Mennonite Social Critique: Pluralism, Interdisciplinarity, and Mennonite Studies – Duane Friesen: The Convergence of Pacifism and Just War – Doug Hostetter: Interfaith Paths to Peace – James Samuel Logan: The Ground and Educational Ministry of Ethics: A (Darkly Hued) Anabaptist Perspective – Lauren Friesen: "Be Just, and Fear Not": Theater as Restorative Justice – Vincent Harding: The Beggars Are Rising, Where Are the Saints? – Lawrence Hart: Connections Past, Present, and Future – Bryan Rafael Falcón: Hexadecaroon – Katie Graber: Liberating Anabaptist Music – Cameron Altaras: Voice of the Residue: The Reckoning of Intergenerational Female Wounding – Ruth E. Krall: Healing the Wounds of a Violated World – Lorin Peters: I Will Kill Him First! – Darla Schumm: Musings from a Blind Mennonite Misfit: When Disability Theory and Anabaptist Identity Intersect – S. Roy Kaufman: Anabaptism and Its Agrarian Heritage – Charlene Gingerich: Beauty Happens – Daniel Shank Cruz: Mennonite Literature’s Queer Decolonial Anabaptist Vision – Al Schnupp: Us and Them – Jeff Gundy: Emblems of the Times – Sofia Samatar: The Centaur’s Recipe – Rachel Epp Buller: Learning from our Ancestors: Listening to the Patterns in our Hands – Douglas Witmer: Neighbor : Who – Diana Zimmerman: Slowly Like Snow – Lisa Schirch: Applying a Mennonite Theology of Peacebuilding to Mennonite Institutions – Julia Reimer: Negotiating the Blade: A Dramatic Reverie on Faith, Institutions, and Theater – Clayton Funk: Walking a Tightrope Across the University: Following My Ethical Compass and Hacking Higher Education – Rudi Kauffman: Ethics, Faith, and Health Care – J. Alexander Sider: Among the Pains: Christianity, Disability, Healing – David E. Ortman: The Church on the Edge of Forever – List of Contributors – Index.

“‘You can take the girl out of the Mennonite church, but you can’t take the Mennonite church out of the girl.’ I have said this many times over the last 45+ years in explanation of what has shaped my identity, values and ethics, and faith after leaving the Mennonite church as a young adult to become United Methodist, a pastor and ultimately bishop. Issues of religious identity, ethics, especially the role of peacemaking as foundational to discipleship and disciple-making, and specifically how to be religious in a very divergent world are all part of what we as Christians in North America need to address. Kudos to Friesen and Koehn for their ambitious and challenging work!”
—Bishop Sally Dyck, Ecumenical Officer for the United Methodist Church