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The Editors
Anabaptists and
Postmodernity
Susan Biesecker-Mast
has been Assistant Professor of Communication at Bluffton
(Oh.) College since 1996. She received her B.A. from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she studied
communication arts. Her graduate degrees are from the
University of Pittsburgh in the areas of rhetoric and
communication. Since completing her studies she has
published many articles in classical rhetoric, American
feminism, and tourism in Amish-Mennonite communities.
Susan was baptized as a Catholic and
grew up near Chicago, where as a young person she became
involved with the Willow Creek Community Church youth
group. While studying in Pittsburgh, she began attending
Pittsburgh Mennonite Church, where she was rebaptized in
1991. That same year she was married to Gerald Mast,
after two years of courtship originating in intense
conversations about postmodernism, Derridian
deconstruction, and God. She belongs to First Mennonite
Church, Bluffton.
Gerald Biesecker-Mast
has been Assistant Professor of Communication at Bluffton
College since 1996. He completed a B.A., with a major in
communication arts, at Malone College, Canton, Ohio. He
received his graduate degrees in rhetoric and
communication from the University of Pittsburgh. He has
published a number of essays on religious communication,
social conflict, and Anabaptist persuasion.
Gerald grew up in Holmes County, Ohio,
and was baptized into the Zion Conservative Mennonite
Church in Benton at age sixteen. While studying in
Pittsburgh, he met Susan Biesecker in a graduate seminar,
and after many long and wide-ranging discussions, he and
Susan were married in 1991 at Heinz Chapel. He is a
member of First Mennonite Church, Bluffton.
Anabaptists and
Postmodernity orders:
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