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Pilgrims book wins gold from Reader’s Favorite awards
“Art in the First Person” in Elan magazine
MQR Review: “Masterful … a remarkable feat”
Wonderful Book Review From MHSBC
This week, Pilgrims on the Silk Road won a gold medal in the nonfiction...
Check out my “Art in the First Person” article in the latest issue of...
The April 2011 issue of Mennonite Quarterly Review features a lengthy (2,000+ words) review...
BOOK REVIEW Pilgrims on the Silk Road: a Muslim-Christian Encounter in Khiva. Eugene, OR:...
This week, Pilgrims on the Silk Road won a gold medal in the nonfiction war writing category from the Reader’s Favorite review site. Not bad for a book about a pacifist community and their peaceful response to Muslims. Yet, the context in which the Mennonites of Pilgrims engaged their Muslim neighbors was among the...
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Check out my “Art in the First Person” article in the latest issue of Elan, an arts magazine in Northern Virginia: An Author in Search of a Story: Retracing a Long-Forgotten Trek by Walter Ratliff A few flakes of white paint clinging to the rusting, sun-shaped ironwork of the gate fell away as I...
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The Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia is graciously hosting me for a two special events at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC. On Saturday, May 28, at 7:00pm we’ll have a screening of Through the Desert Goes Our Journey. On Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm, I’ll deliver a presentation about the Mennonites of Pilgrims...
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The April 2011 issue of Mennonite Quarterly Review features a lengthy (2,000+ words) review of Pilgrims on the Silk Road. I appreciate how the reviewer offers lots of praise and some thoughtful perspective for Pilgrims readers. Here are some excerpts: The so-called Great Trek of several hundred Mennonites from the Molotschna and the Am...
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Check out my “Art in the First Person” article in the latest issue of Elan, an arts magazine in...
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In a few weeks, I’ll be presenting my research about the Mennonites of Pilgrims On The Silk Road alongside...
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The next event on the calendar is the a screening of Through the Desert Goes Our Journey and a...
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It has been quite a year for Agile Arts and the Ratliff family. We feel very blessed to have...
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I recently came across an article from the Uzbek Academy of the Arts magazine about the first Uzbek photographer, and his Mennonite mentor. There are some great photos in the article, and it discusses a bit about Divanov’s relationship with Wilhelm Penner, the Mennonite teacher at Ak Metchet. Check out Through the Desert Goes Our...
The Continuing Voyages…Pilgrims reader Celeste Kennel-Shank reminded me of a couple of articles by others who...
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