The best Mennonite Christianity books: Reddit reviews

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“You should plan on cutting off about half your triangle or start points. Any more than that is showing off.” —Lisa Boyer

Her book is inspired and filled with such advice.

I feel like a pattern that does well with Civil War reproduction fabrics would do well with these as well. Similar colors and level of busy-ness. This blog post has a lot of interesting options.

Amish quilts use solids, but they often have deep colors like this. Maybe a book of Amish Quilts like this one will spark something.

You can also see if the manufacturer has a quilt pattern that accompanies the line. Usually I will go with something I choose on my own, but sometimes they really do get it spot on! Not sure who makes these.

This post instantly reminded me of a book that was assigned in an early History class of mine called <em>We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber</em>.

From the description:

> Lost for over a hundred years until their rediscovery by Nick Salvatore, Amos Webber’s “Thermometer Books” recorded six decades of the daily experiences of a black freeman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. These diaries form the basis for Salvatore’s vital portrait of an everyday hero who struggled unrelentingly for his people in a land that still considered blacks to be less than human.

> Lost for over a hundred years until their rediscovery by Nick Salvatore, Amos Webber’s “Thermometer Books” recorded six decades of the daily experiences of a black freeman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. These diaries form the basis for Salvatore’s vital portrait of an everyday hero who struggled unrelentingly for his people in a land that still considered blacks to be less than human.

This and of course Meditations by Marcus Aurelius are great examples of how journals can be accessed to gain insight into the past. One by an Emperor and one by a common man.

>why does he allow bad translations like this?

Yet the fact we know it to be a bad translation shows he doesn't. The point is, one is entirely free to study the text or simply lampoon it for easy points.

>We can actually demonstrate the falsehood of many religious claims

Which is why half of those points have nothing to do with biblical claims, the rest twist the facts.

Take #2 for instance, the Galileo affair was entirely because he was trying to argue heliocentricity as fact without evidence. Catholics such as Bellarmine were actually teaching Coppernican heliocentricity and had no problem with it being treated as hypothetical, but argued it could not be taught as real physical phenomenon without evidence that met the scientific standard.

It also chooses to ignore the work of Nicholas Steno, the father of stratigraphy and George Lemaitre, the origin of the big bang theory, who were both driven by their faith to disprove the notions of an eternal Earth/Universe.

>I'd be glad to listen to your reasoning

Then I'd highly recommend the work of Christopher Marshall on Restorative Justice. He has a short primer on biblical justice as well as a more lengthy and detailed look at the universal theme of justice trending towards restoration in the bible.

Have you heard of Mennonite Girls Can Cook? It's a blog, but there's also a book which I need to buy.