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…
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Rare Snapshot of Lausan
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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…
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Award-winning trek poem
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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. …
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On The Road This Summer
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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…
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“Through the Desert Goes Our Journey” Wins an Emmy
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July 20, 2010 NORTH NEWTON – The contribution of Bethel College musicians to a documentary on the Russian Mennonite “Great Trek” to Central Asia in the late 19th century has resulted in a regional Emmy® award. “Through the desert goes…
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Book review published in Mennonite Weekly Review
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Reappraisal of Asia sojourn By Melanie Zuercher On my desk is Pilgrims on the Silk Road: A Christian-Muslim Encounter in Khiva by Walter R. Ratliff, published by Wipf and Stock, 2010, 293 pages, $34. I had little exposure to Mennonite…
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Libraries picking up Pilgrims book
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A quick look at WorldCat shows that orders from libraries are starting to roll in for Pilgrims on the Silk Road. Here are a few listing the book in their catalogues: Princeton Theological Seminary University of Missouri-Columbia Eastern Mennonite University…
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First Book Newsletter
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Here’s a recent promotional letter. Thanks everyone for the great response! ————————————- Greetings, I want to let you know about my new book from Wipf and Stock Publishers called Pilgrims on the Silk Road: A Muslim-Christian Encounter in Khiva. Pilgrims…
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Latest Endorsement
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http://www.pilgrimsonthesilkroad.com/ This endorsement really captures an important focus of the book: “Pilgrims on the Silk Road is a captivating story. The book has planted the Mennonite presence deeply in the encounter with a multi-sided Islamic culture. I cannot think of…
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Book images and illustrations
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http://www.pilgrimsonthesilkroad.com/ Click here to order a copy of Pilgrims on the Silk Road (The Great Highway of Central Asia – London Illustrated Daily, 1885) Among the features of Pilgrims on the Silk Road I am proud of are the woodcuts, photos…
