Currently reading:
- The Amish Way by Kraybill, Nolt, Weaver-Zercher
Finished reading:
- Against the Wind: Eberhard Arnold and the Bruderhof by Markus Baum. Engaging biography. Will be reading more about the Bruderhof.
- Becoming Anabaptist by J. Denny Weaver. Focused on the Reformation era. Historical books often lose my interest (my fault, not theirs) but this one did not.
Future plans:
- More by Kraybill
- The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder. My reading log says I read this in February 2011. Around the same time I read Nonviolence by Kurlansky, An Ethic for Christians by Stringfellow, A Confession by Tolstoy, and some others that tell me what was on my mind fifteen years ago.
Abandoned:
- The Naked Anabaptist by Stuart Murray. Wasn’t what I was looking for.
- The Anabaptist Story by William Estep. Nothing wrong with it. It’s just that Becoming Anabaptist grabbed my attention and two books on Reformation-era Anabaptists would be overkill for my purposes.
Why am I doing this? Now and then (once a year or so?), I feel a surge of new, loosely-connected interests. Sometimes this results in some new ideas and sometimes it just adds to my store of useless knowledge. I’ve learned to go with it.