I leave in a few hours to head back across the Pond. Here are a few thoughts on a productive trip to AP’s HQ and the University of Westminster conference. On Friday, I went straight from the red-eye flight into…
The Mennonites of Khiva: A Modernizing Community For more information about the conference where this presentation was given, click here. Transcript: This talk is about the Mennonites of Ak Metchet and their role a s a modernizing community The three…
The Mennonite Trek to Khiva: Apocalyptic Debacle or Christian-Muslim Paradigm For more information about the colloquium where this presentation was given, click here. Transcript: I am speaking this morning about the Mennonite migration to Khiva in the late 19th century.…
Heinrich Abrams was murdered the night Turkoman bandits had come to steal his wife. For months the bandits had stolen livestock and broken into the homes of Mennonites living along the Amu Darya river. Each time, the Mennonites refused to retaliate…
I have a apocalyptic prediction: Throughout the year 2011 we will see a deluge of movies, television shows, books and films about the The End and the year 2012. Is it truly a prediction if this has already started? If…
Pilgrims reader Celeste Kennel-Shank reminded me of a couple of articles by others who have retraced the Mennonite trek to Khiva. The first article is from Jim Juhnke. Jim has has acted as a mentor on the documentary and book…
Dan Graber is the music director responsible for arranging and directing the Bethel College Concert Choir’s haunting rendition of “Through the Desert Goes Our Journey.” He was featured today in the Argus Leader, the newspaper in Sioux Falls, SD. Here…
One of the pivotal episodes in Pilgrims on the Silk Road is the Mennonite sojourn in Lausan. When the Mennonites first arrived in Khiva, the khan granted them a piece of land along the Laudan canal near the Amu…
Congratulations to Jesse Nathan, the co-producer of Through the Desert Goes Our Journey, for taking top honors this year from the Associated Church Press for his poem, “Heavens.” The winning poem appeared in the May 5, 2009 issue of The Mennonite. …
Mid-summer is here, and we have spent the past seven months working hard to spread the word about Pilgrims on the Silk Road. We have lots of great news to share with you about the book and its companion documentary “Through the Desert Goes…
