Sticking Points

Book, 2011, 264 pp
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At Anna’s church, war is wrong wrong wrong. The vestibule doesn’t have a fancy signboard commemorating soldiers who sacrificed their lives. Thou shalt not kill, period, and the church folks have no intention of chucking this big mainstay belief. Still, is theirs a bloodthirsty God? Is Anna crazy for wondering? Have Anabaptist groups like hers—Mennonites, Church of the Brethren, the Brethren in Christ, and others—clung to a skewed gospel?
“Shirley Kurtz gets inside Anna Schlonneger’s soul as Anna grapples with her convictions about God’s unconditional love, convictions that stand in tension with her received theology and with her fellow church members. Anna’s is a peace church with a violent God, and Anna is having none of that. A thoughtful, witty, and ultimately hopeful story. The kind of fiction that rings of truth.” —Ted Grimsrud, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies, Eastern Mennonite University; Author, Theology As If Jesus Matters

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