Peace, Progress, and the Professor: The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith Traditional Craft Full title: Colonial Taxes Bethel

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This book analyzes this popular religious phenomenon from an Anabaptist-Mennonite perspective

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from tax records to church membership rolls

and we are summoned to recognize that the gospel is reserved not simply for humanity

Peace, Progress, and the Professor: The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith Traditional Craft Full title: Colonial Taxes BethelIn this engaging narrative biography, historian Perry Bush chronicles Smith's childhood in an Illinois farming community, his youthful turn toward intellectual inquiry, and his confidence that Anabaptist faith and life offer gifts to the wider world. By recounting the story of one of the foremost Mennonite intellectuals, Bush surveys the storied terrain of 20th century Mennonite identity in its selective borrowing from wider culture and its tentative