WHAT DAPPER “80” LOOKS LIKE Next month, the now large and prosperous Mennonite colony of Fernheim in the Chaco of Paraguay is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the nurses training program that my parents, John and Clara Schmidt, founded…
At the Cruz de Ferro on El Camino in 2015 “What’s next?” That’s the question friends are now asking us, given that we recently completed the trilogy of books we felt called to research, write, and publish nearly eight…
You are the first to hear about the release of our latest book, now titled A Journey Home: The Inner Turmoil of a Mennonite Hero. The book was just recently released by Wipf and Stock Publishing. It is available in all of the usual bookstores, of course including Wipf and…
Ed and I just returned from a more than 4,000-mile road trip through Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. We call it our “reconnections” trip as we planned the itinerary around visits with eighteen friends spread across those…
One of my favorite sculptures hanging on our living room wall is a piece called “I Am Many,” created by Jacquline Hurlbert. The artist says that the piece is a reminder of the complexities of our being. Jacquline’s…