A painful, divisive year for Mennonites

I expected 2025 to be a joyful year, celebrating 500 years since the believer’s baptism that birthed Anabaptism.

Jan 6 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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December 2025

2025 in the Books

Appropriately for this year, I read 67 books that were not for school or blurbing.

Dec 31, 2025 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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October 2025

August 2025

Gramsci and church counter/hegemony

How did this happen? How did fascism win?

Aug 14, 2025 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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July 2025

Mid Year Book Recommendations

We are half way through 2025 and of the 32 books I’ve read so far, here are a few recommendations:

Jul 26, 2025 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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June 2025

May 2025

April 2025

Empty tomb, absent Christ, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Painting by Salvadoran folks artist, Fernand Llort

Apr 19, 2025 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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empathy's fantasies

Politics after subject/object

Apr 1, 2025 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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January 2025

Anabaptist Trumpism

The authors of "Why many of us voted for Trump" wanted understanding. I got something else.

Jan 29, 2025 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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For the unity and healing of the nation

When we fight together - we win

Jan 18, 2025 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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November 2024

More materialist hope, less cheap religiosity

“People have to have hope that their lives can be different.

Nov 20, 2024 • Melissa Florer-Bixler

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