Building Communities of Compassion · Mennonite Mutual Aid in Theory and Practice

This pathbreaking volume edited by Willard M. Swartley and Donald B. Kraybill offers the first sustained and scholarly assessment of the history, theology, and practice of Mennonite mutual aid.Long noted for their peacemaking, Mennonites have been less known for those efforts to care for each other whose 20th-century expressions have roots in the Anabaptism of the 1500s. Here Mennonite scholars from a variety of disciplines highlight this Mennonite distinctive. Carefully and sometimes colorfully, 13 authors tell the intriguing story of the rise and transformation of Mennonite aid.