Ervin Beck,Professor Emeritus of English at Goshen College, has s taught and done research and publication in English literature, international literature, folklore and Mennonite literature. He is the author of MennoFolk: Mennonite and Amish Folk Traditions (Herald Press, 2004) and was chair and co-chair, respectively, of the Mennonite/s Writing in the U.S. (1977) and Mennonite/s Writing: An International Conference (2002) held at Goshen College. On his website he maintains extensive bibliographies of U.S. Mennonite Literature, Canadian Mennonite Literature and Mennonite Folklore and Folk Arts. He was chair of the Mennonite-Amish Museum Committee at Goshen College and served as copy editor for The Mennonite Quarterly Review 1968-2003. Children and grandchildren of John and Roma Ruth have studied English and folklore with him at Goshen College. John Richard Burkholder, Professor Emeritus of Religion at Goshen College, has also taught at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and at schools in Costa Rica and South Africa. He has published in the fields of theology and social ethics, with special attention to peace and conflict studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Harvard University and was ordained to ministry in the Mennonite Church in 1954. Tony Campolo is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University. For ten years he served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He did his undergraduate education at Eastern University and holds a Ph.D. degree from temple University. He is a frequent guest on television shows ranging from "Larry King Live" to "Politically Incorrect" and has been co-host of "Hashing It Out," on the Odyssey Television Network. Campolo is author of twenty-nine books, most recently Which Jesus? As the founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, he has organized schools and universities in various Third World countries as well as creating a variety of ministries for "at-risk" children in urban neighborhoods across North America. He is married to the former Peggy Davidson, has two children and four grandchildren.. Reta Halteman Finger teaches at Messiah College as Assistant Professor of New Testament. She edited Daughters of Sarah magazine for seventeen years, co-edited The Wisdom of Daughters: Two Decades of the Voice of Christian Feminism (Innisfree Press, 2001), and authored Paul and the Roman House Churches (Herald Press, 1993). John Ruth was a neighbor, family friend, her sixth grade teacher, and pastor of her home church for many years. Jan Gleysteen grew up in Amsterdam, Holland, where he took his training in illustration and design at the Municipal School for Applied Arts and the Royal Academy. In the early 1950s, he spent much time crisscrossing Europe by bike. He moved to the United States in 1953 to study at Goshen College and work at Mennonite Publishing House, where he served for over three decades as artist, writer, editor, and lecturer, primarily in Anabaptist-Mennonite historiography. In 1969 John L. Ruth and Gleysteen embarked on a series of research trips to document European Mennonite history. This first excursion resulted in the Martyrs Mirror Oratorio, the film The Quiet in the Land, and the novel Conrad Grebel, Son of Zurich, all by John Ruth. In 1970 Gleysteen first took a group of friends on a three-week bus tour of Europe to visit the places he knew so well. This was the beginning of TourMagination, a tour company which specializes in travel with an emphasis on Anabaptist-Mennonite life and thought. Now retired in Goshen, Indiana, Jan continues to speak and lead tours. He and his wife, Barbara, are members of the College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana. Leonard Gross grew up in the Doylestown (Pa.) Mennonite Church and graduated from Goshen College in 1953. He served under the Mennonite Central Committee in Germany, working with North German Mennonite youth, 1954-1957. After completing seminary at Goshen Biblical Seminary, he taught at Bethany Christian High School, 1959-1964. In 1968 he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland and accepted an invitation to teach history at Western Michigan University. He was Executive Secretary of the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church and editor of the Mennonite Historical Bulletin 1970-1990 while also teaching part-time at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, and at Goshen College. He continues in research, writing, and translation work in Anabaptist-Mennonite studies, and currently serves as secretary of the Mennonite Historical Society and as conference historian of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. He is author of many articles and books, including The Golden Years of the Hutterites (Herald Press, 1980, rev. 1998). Jeff Gundy has taught writing and literature at Bluffton College since 1984. A graduate of Goshen College and Indiana University, he also taught at Hesston College. He has published three books of poems and two prose books, including Rhapsody with Dark Matter (poems, Bottom Dog Press, 2000) and Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye (nonfiction, SUNY Press, 2003). He and his wife Marlyce have three sons. Ann Hostetler is Associate Professor of English at Goshen College, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is the author of Empty Room with Light: Poems (DreamSeeker Books of Pandora Press U.S., 2002) and the editor of A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2003). Her scholarship on American literature has appeared in PMLA, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and The Mennonite Quarterly Review. Her poems have appeared in many journals including The American Scholar, Cream City Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Mothering, and The Mennonite. Julia Kasdorf is the author of two collections of poetry, a book of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, and a biography, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American (Pandora Press U.S., 2002). She directs the graduate creative writing program at Penn State University and lives in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, with her husband the artist David Kasdorf and their daughter Amelia Clare. John A. Lapp is Executive Secretary Emeritus of Mennonite Central Committee and currently coordinator of the Global Mennonite History Project for Mennonite World Conference. Lapp is a native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Eastern Mennonite College, Case Western Reserve University, and University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Eastern Mennonite College, Goshen College, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elizabethtown College, and Bishop’s College in Calcutta, India. He was dean and provost of Goshen College 1972-1984. Lapp has authored many articles as well as several books including Mennonite Church in India 1898-1962 (1972) The View From East Jerusalem (1980). He is the husband of M. Alice Weber. They have three children and five grandchildren. Eloise Hiebert Meneses is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Eastern University. Her interests include ethnicity, global economics, and history of India. She lives with her husband Michael, and children, Holly and Andrew, in Lansdale Pennsylvania, and attends Wellspring Church of Skippack (Pa.). Elmer S. Miller grew up in the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania area and graduated from Eastern Mennonite College (1954) and Seminary (1956). From 1956 to 1963 he and his wife, Lois, served with the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions under assignment to the Argentine Toba people. In 1967, he received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1966-1996 Elmer was a faculty member and administrator at Temple University. He has written books and articles on the Argentine Toba and missions, most recently Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Christian Anthropologist (University of Illinois Press, 1995) and Peoples of the Gran Chaco (Bergin & Garvey, ed., 1999). Elizabeth Morgan is a professor of English at Eastern University. She receive her B.A. from Eastern College, M.A. from University of North Carolina, and Ph.D. from Drew University. She has written on the creative process and global poverty and edited a collection of refugee stories. She has produced films for public television on the revolution in El Salvador and on issues resulting from the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Her recent book, Aeroplane Mirrors: Personal and Political Reflexivity in Post-Colonial Women’s Novels, was published by Heinemann as part of the Studies in African Literature series. Composer, conductor, and teacher Alice Parker was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1925. She began composing as a young child, graduated from Smith College and from the Juilliard School where she studied choral conducting with Robert Shaw, with whom she collaboratively produced choral arrangements of folksongs, hymns, and spirituals known worldwide. Parker worked extensively with Mennonites during the 1960s, composing several compositions for them including the opera, Martyr’s Mirror. Other Mennonite-inspired works are the opera Singers Glen and the cantatas Christopher Dock, Melodious Accord, Sacred Symphonies, Sermon from the Mountain: Martin Luther King and That Sturdy Vine: Mennonite Singing. A book about congregational hymn-singing entitled Melodious Accord: Good Singing in Church, was published by Liturgy Training Publications in Chicago, as were four videos produced by John Ruth. Parker continues to perform and teach through her organization, Melodious Accord, and works with composers and conductors at her home in western Massachusetts through the Fellowship Program. She also travels widely, giving performances of her works and workshops on her methods. John D. Rempel received a B.A. in history at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo in 1966. And later his M.Div. from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart Indiana. In 1971 He studied under the World Council of Churches at the Free University of West Berlin and the Protestant Seminary of East Berlin. For sixteen years he was chaplain and lecturer at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo and during that period earned his Th.D. from the Toronto School of Theology. In 1989 Rempel became minister of the Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship in New York City, a position he held for ten years. During that time he taught theology at two local seminaries and started the Mennonite Central Committee Office at the United Nations, a position he assumed full time in 2000. In 2003 he joined the faculty of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Reemple’s many writing include Planning Worship, a guide to accompany the Hymnal: A Worship Book (Herald Press, 1992) on whose development committee he served, and The Lord’s Supper in Anabaptism (Herald Press, 1993). He edited the Mennonite Minister’s Manual of 1998 (Herald Press). Ervin R. Stutzman is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Church Ministries at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. He also serves as the Moderator for Mennonite Church United States, a recently merged denomination comprising the former General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Church. Before coming to Eastern Mennonite Seminary, he served the Mennonite Church in the roles of pastor, district overseer and conference moderator. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University and holds masters degrees from the University of Cincinnati and Eastern Mennonite Seminary. His bachelor’s degree was granted by Cincinnati Bible College. The Measure of My Days orders:
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