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Mennonite Brethren authors recognized: The annual Word Guild awards for Canadian writers who are Christian were presented June 13 at the 19th God Uses Ink conference in Guelph, Ont. More than 250 people were present to hear plenary speaker Mark Buchanan and see the awards presented.
The Leslie K. Tarr Award for career achievement was given to Margaret Epp of Waldheim, Sask. The 89-year-old Epp has had 39 books published by Moody Press, Zondervan Publishing, Victor Books and Kindred Press. The last Kindred book was entitled Chariots in the Smoke, a Mennonite historical saga. Other Epp books published by Kindred are 8 Tulpengasse, A Fountain Sealed, The Earth is Round.
The Castle Quay Books/Essence Publishing First Book Award was won by Paul Boge, a Winnipeg engineer. His novel, The Chicago Healer, is a novel about the healing power of God, and will be published by Castle Quay Books.
Winner in the Novel Category is Janice L. Dick for her novel, Calm Before the Storm.
Other winners include:
- Culture: Evangelism for Normal People, John Bowen (Augsburg)
- Leadership & Philosophy: Apocalypse Recalled, Harry O. Maier (Fortress)
- Personal Growth: Things Unseen, Mark Buchanan (Multnomah)
- Life Stories: No Foreign Bones in China, Peter Stursberg (University of Alberta)
- Children & Young Adult: Ice Attack, Beatrice Vandervelde (James Lorimer)
- Self-published: The Biblical Case for Equality, Arden Thiessen (Guardian)
Keynote speaker for the 2004 God Uses Ink conference will be New Brunswick novelist Linda Hall.
—Word Guild news release
The Upside Down Kingdom, first released 25 years ago, has now been re-released by Herald Press. The book, by Donald B. Kraybill, challenges Christians to faithful discipleship. It has been read around the world and translated into 6 languages. It has been completely revised and updated.
From Violence to Blessings: How an understanding of deep-rooted conflict can open paths to reconciliation is a book by Vern Neufeld Redekop, published in December by Novalis. Redekop, a foremost leader in conflict resolution, asks questions about the beginnings of conflict, and then in Part 1, moves into discussions about the differentiation and the roles of ethnicity, race, religion and ethnonationalism. In Part 2 he uses a case study of the Oka crisis of 1990 and in Part 3 he introduces the concepts of blessings and reconciliation.
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