{"product_id":"9780836195194","title":"Tongue Screws and Testimonies: Poems, Stories, and Essays Inspired by the Martyrs Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher of \u003ci\u003eMartyrs Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e comes this refreshing, reflective, heartbreaking, humorous—and sometimes irreverent—anthology of poems, creative essays and fiction by new and noted authors with connections to the Anabaptist tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing writers such as Rudy Wiebe, Di Brandt, Jeff Gundy, Jean Janzen, Julia Kasdorf, John Ruth, Rhoda Janzen and others, \u003ci\u003eTongue Screws and Testimonies\u003c\/i\u003e shows how stories from \u003ci\u003eMartyrs Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e intersect with the lives of writers and their characters—and how these stories continue to have a powerful hold on faith, life and imagination today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected and edited by Kirsten Eve Beachy, who teaches writing at Eastern Mennonite University, \u003ci\u003eTongue Screws and Testimonies\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers to consider the implications of \u003ci\u003eMartyrs Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e in their own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTongue Screws and Testimonies\u003c\/i\u003e is for the young woman who remembers hiding behind the couch at her grandparents’ house to look at Jan Luykens’ engravings, and who still gets chills thinking about it. It's for the man who, drawn into a Mennonite congregation in middle age, is trying to get a grasp of Anabaptist history. It will serve as a conversation starter with theologians of many traditions who are concerned with the difficulties of living faithfully.“—Kirsten Eve Beachy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MennoMedia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008084099312,"sku":"9780836195194","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780836195194_p0.jpg?v=1763826299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780836195194","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}