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Christmas Carol Kauffman (December 25, 1901 – January 30, 1969) was an American author of Mennonite Christian literature.Kauffman was best known for her semi-biographical novels, and her writings were largely based on the life stories of people she met through the mission work she performed with her husband, pastor Nelson E. Kauffman.
By 1544, the term Mennonite or Mennist was used in a letter to refer to the Dutch Anabaptists. [10] Twenty-five years after his renunciation of Catholicism, Menno died on 31 January 1561 at Wüstenfelde, Holstein, and was buried in his garden. [3] He was married to a woman named Gertrude, and they had at least three children, two daughters and ...
Mennonite literature, in the modern sense, usually refers to literary works by Mennonites about Mennonites, whether the author is Mennonite by ethnicity or religion. . Although fiction was written about Mennonites by non-Mennonites since at least the 1800s, the term Mennonite literature, as a genre, usually refers to literary works written by people who self-identify as Mennon
Communauté Mennonite au Congo (86,600 members) [125] Old Order Mennonites (60,000 to 80,000 members in the U.S., Canada and Belize) Mennonite Church USA (about 62,000 members in the United States) [126] Kanisa La Mennonite Tanzania (50,000 members in 240 congregations) Conservative Mennonites (30,000 members in over 500 U.S. churches) [127]
Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. [22] The five short stories that were used as the basis for A Christmas Story were collected under the title A Christmas Story and published as a stand-alone book in 2003. [23]
Although the Coventry mystery play cycle was traditionally performed in summer, the lullaby has been in modern times regarded as a Christmas carol. It was brought to a wider audience after being featured in the BBC's Empire Broadcast at Christmas 1940, shortly after the Bombing of Coventry in World War II , when the broadcast concluded with the ...
A story about school-master and humanist Christopher Dock at the Mennonite School near Skippack, Pennsylvania during the 1700s. A Summer Day with Ted and Nina (1940) Thee, Hannah! (1940) A story about a young Quaker girl meeting an escaped slave in pre-Civil War Philadelphia.
Janet and Allan Ahlberg, The Jolly Christmas Postman [2] Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace [2] [3] L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Stick Man [2] Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box, The Light of Christmas [2] [4] Cornelia Funke, When Santa Fell to Earth; Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas