"From a courageous examination of his own life experiences and his extensive study, Peachey painstakingly works with the reader to unravel the threads leading to a variety of dissonances present to church and believers in our time. His insights challenge mindsets that we take for granted, and turn us toward the possibility of blessing the world by Spirit-led forms, for fuller witness to the grace and mystery of God. —Vivian Headings, Member, Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community

"Paul Peachey's is a life lived on the margins between standard organized forms of Christendom and a prophetic peace witness in the Anabaptist heritage. Life on the margins indeed! Aren't we all on the margins? The margins are breaking down. The margins become a threshold over which we cross by the power of God to a new, deeper, more loving humanity. With his great humility of spirit, Paul Peachey focuses on some insights basic to the ways ahead for humanity. He is calling us to claim our true future. Read him and respond." —The Rev. Robert Pollard (Episcopal clergyman)

"Paul Peachey, born in an Amish home, has covered a phenomenally wide cultural and spiritual terrain. Reared in an Amish community in Pennsylvania, he lived, worked, and studied in at least six different countries, and travelled more widely than most diplomats (over fifty times to the USSR alone). Peachey has pondered and wrestled deeply to comprehend the meaning of God’s plan for the creation, including of course humanity and its salvation. This autobiography represents an heroic attempt to relate his experiences and understanding to the social and cultural world in which he lived. His story entertains, informs, and provides a unique, even provocative interpretation of how God acts in history." —Calvin Redekop, Sociologist and Author

"Reading this work is a remarkable and stimulating experience. Dr. Paul Peachey, a Mennonite professor and writer, having shared ecumenically and internationally, brings to life a perspective on worldwide ministries of the church in the last half of the twentieth century. This is a good read and introduces one to the prophetic role of this 'servant of God' who, with wife Ellen, has touched so many lives for peace and for the kingdom of Christ. I am thankful that in the mid-1950s I knew Dr.Peachy as my professor and through the years since have known him as a friend and as a true disciple. This is an important writing which opens windows to his life work and church history. —Dr. Myron S. Augsburger, President Emeritus of E.M.U.