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Emmy Maendel

Emmy Maendel

I have spent most of my adult life studying history, particularly the 16th century Anabaptists and the beginnings of the Bruderhof. After marrying Jake my interests expanded to preserving fruit, making cheese, and driving a tractor. I believe Eberhard Arnold was a prophet of the twentieth century whose witness deserves to be better known, so in my blog I hope to show that his voice is relevant today. Published books that I've written include: An Embassy Besieged: The Story of a Christian Community in Nazi Germany and No Lasting Home: A Year in the Paraguayan Wilderness. I live at Fox Hill, a Bruderhof in Walden, New York.

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May 2, 2019

On Criticism and Trust

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If a plant has no sap it burns up in the sun. If it has sap, it grows and receives color and life the more the sun shines. The light of truth can only make us grow and become effective if God’s power pulses in us as love, as Spirit, as joy, and as...

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March 8, 2019

Thoughts for the Season of Lent

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As the season of Lent begins and we approach Easter, I turn to a book of Lenten devotions published by Plough two years ago, The Crucified Is My Love. It was written by Lutheran pastor Ernst von Holst in the late 1800s in the Baltic country of...

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