Elaine Enns

Ivan the Fool and Three Shorter Tales for Living Peaceably

Fiction

“If Russia at feudalism’s dusk had heeded these pointed folktales from her literary son, she might not have had to endure so many impish terrors, from Stalin to Putin. Yet Tolstoy’s parables are just as relevant to toxic American militarism and plutocracy right now.”

Pillar of Fire

Fiction

“In this historical novel, Hollyday, a veteran curator of women’s stories of faith, brings alive the remarkable (and too-long obscured) medieval Beguine movement. She weaves together feudal social disparities, Abrahamic traditions, ecclesial machinations, and doses of magical realism into a fabric of adventure that gallops across Europe to Sinai and back. Retelling the gospel story in a feminist key, Pillar of Fire is a compelling mirror for our own times and consciences.”

Resurrection Peacemaking: Plowsharing the Tools of War

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“When we met Cliff Kindy and family at their Joyfield Farm during a Christian Peacemaker Team Congress in 1998, they already embodied an exemplary personal and political discipleship of nonviolence. This now revered elder peacemaker chronicles how CPT experiments around the world are opening paths that can liberate us from our captivity to militarism. Both harrowing and inspiring, Kindy’s stories and analysis invite us into, and instruct us in, that crucial work.”

The Drama of a Rural Community’s Life Cycle

History & Biography

“Pastor Kaufman maps his place and people compassionately and critically, exploring what in our work we call ‘landlines, bloodlines, and songlines.’ Kaufman’s fulsome portrait of a particular historic legacy of ‘Anabaptist agrarianism’ offers lessons for contemporary resistance to ‘imperial monoculture.’”

When Methods Die

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This young Latinx pastor brings the voice of a new American apostolate—with a sober eye on the legacy of the church and a heart for its future. He begins with a searing yet empathetic eulogy for a dying ‘Method of Church,’ then walks us through a labyrinth of decline and denial toward an expectancy of resurrection. A hip-hop poet exploring fraught terrain through language and metaphors both playful and poignant, Miller-Villegas serves the tradition he loves as hospice chaplain and midwife.”