Peace, Progress, and the Professor: The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith Traditional Craft Moore experiments with practices of

Moore experiments with practices of everyday peacemaking and invites readers to do the same

Includes the 1866 diary

from tax records to church membership rolls

sample documented ancestor chart

This book analyzes this popular religious phenomenon from an Anabaptist-Mennonite perspective

Peace, Progress, and the Professor: The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith Traditional Craft Moore experiments with practices ofIn this engaging narrative biography, historian Perry Bush chronicles Smith's childhood in an Illinois farming community, his youthful turn toward intellectual inquiry, and his confidence that Anabaptist faith and life offer gifts to the wider world. By recounting the story of one of the foremost Mennonite intellectuals, Bush surveys the storied terrain of 20th century Mennonite identity in its selective borrowing from wider culture and its tentative