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Check out this nice review appearing in a research journal produced by the Turkish think tank Uluslararası Stratejik Arastirmalar Kurumu (International Strategic Research Organisation/USAK). It’s good to see the exposure Pilgrims on the Silk Road is receiving: Journal of Central Asia and the Caucasian Studies Volume: 5 Issue: 10 (2010), 165-168. Kitap İncelemeleri /...
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This week, Pilgrims on the Silk Road won a gold medal in the nonfiction war writing category from the Reader’s Favorite review site. Not bad for a book about a pacifist community and their peaceful response to Muslims. Yet, the context in which the Mennonites of Pilgrims engaged their Muslim neighbors was among the...
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Check out my “Art in the First Person” article in the latest issue of Elan, an arts magazine in Northern Virginia: An Author in Search of a Story: Retracing a Long-Forgotten Trek by Walter Ratliff A few flakes of white paint clinging to the rusting, sun-shaped ironwork of the gate fell away as I...
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The Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia is graciously hosting me for a two special events at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC. On Saturday, May 28, at 7:00pm we’ll have a screening of Through the Desert Goes Our Journey. On Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm, I’ll deliver a presentation about the Mennonites of Pilgrims...
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In a few weeks, I’ll be presenting my research about the Mennonites of Pilgrims On The Silk Road alongside a scholar who studied church missions & politics in the Belgian Congo, and the Irish-American Catholic use of mass media (i.e. Fulton Sheen). Other panels will be dealing with literature, theology, history, etc. The event...
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The April 2011 issue of Mennonite Quarterly Review features a lengthy (2,000+ words) review of Pilgrims on the Silk Road. I appreciate how the reviewer offers lots of praise and some thoughtful perspective for Pilgrims readers. Here are some excerpts: The so-called Great Trek of several hundred Mennonites from the Molotschna and the Am...
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The next event on the calendar is the a screening of Through the Desert Goes Our Journey and a presentation from the book, Pilgrims on the Silk Road at Georgetown University on April 15. It happens at 6:00pm at the Faculty Club restaurant in the Leavey Center. If you aren’t familiar with Georgetown University,...
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BOOK REVIEW Pilgrims on the Silk Road: a Muslim-Christian Encounter in Khiva. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010. By Robert Martens From Roots and Branches, 17:1, February, 2011. Where is this last gathering place of the true church? The answer: It is to be in the desert. But where? Perhaps, yes very likely in...
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Ira Glass, the host of PRI’s This American Life offers some good advice on storytelling. The video quality is not that great, but the advice is solid across any format – whether you are writing a print article, or producing a video or audio piece:
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It has been quite a year for Agile Arts and the Ratliff family. We feel very blessed to have the opportunity to tell some previously untold stories, and learn a few new ones as well. Pilgrims on the Silk Road was officially released on January 1st (with a few early-bird copies sneaking out before...
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