App thoughtback8/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the past we have posted photos on our website to accompany an article. This issue presents the first full-color photographs to be printed in Brethren Life & Thought. 58.1 is available to purchase as a single issue at Brethren Press, Elgin, Illinois The Young Center, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania the Brethren Heritage Center, Brookville, Ohio or the Brethren Life & Thought office, Richmond, Indiana. This stand-alone issue is more a book of essays than a journal. The fifteen articles in this issue cover such topics as biographical information about Mack Jr., his time at Ephrata, his poetry and the hymn singing practices of his time, Mack Jr.’s theological understandings of love feast and baptism, Pietism of colonial Brethren, and life in the broader church of the eighteenth century. (1712-1803)-son of Alexander Mack Sr., considered the founder of the Brethren-was a leader of the Brethren in their early days in America. This issue is a special expanded edition devoted to the publication of those papers. In June 2012 scholars convened at the Young Center in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, for a conference entitled The Life and Influence of Alexander Mack Jr. This issue was guest edited by Walt Wiltschek. Other articles cover topics including ministerial leadership and education in the Church of the Brethren, the practice of wearing the prayer covering, peacebuilding, and transformation in the church in India. Kieval, brings food for thought about living out distinctive beliefs. “Jews as a Religious Minority in America: The Challenges and Risks of Integration,” the address to the BJA Annual Meeting at Annual Conference 2012 by Professor Hillel J. “‘Battle Ground’ Peaches: Dunkers on the Gettysburg Battlefield,” written by Steve Longenecker, is the third in a series of papers presented over the five-year Civil War sesquicentennial. This issue includes articles on a wide variety of topics. ![]()
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