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Much Anabaptist missiological literature is mostly male. And growing stale. That will change with Emily Ralph Servant's important work here which brings fresh multidisciplinary lenses to the conversation and the stinging critique that, even though martyrdom stories are cherished within the Anabaptist movement, today's Mennonite reality 'rarely resembles the community of risk-takers who birthed it.' I will buy copies of Servant's book for my congregational leadership team and recommend it in seminary teaching. --James R. Krabill, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana A conversation about risk and mission is overdue in Mennonite contexts. While theological perspectives vary widely across the Anabaptist movement, we can all be challenged by the reminder that love, not fear, is the driver of a truly Jesus-centered church. --Meghan Larissa Good, Teaching Pastor, Trinity Mennonite Church Yes, mission is a risky business; this book calls us back into true mission. Ralph Servant takes the reader through a spiral of liberation, weaving in risk-taking. She holds up a mirror to white churches, reflecting their fear of change and departure from their courageous Anabaptist beginnings. Her zealous prophetic voice reminds the church to give of itself as in Jesus's praxis: in mutual relationships, engaging the margins by practicing 'vulnerable presence, ' and embodying God's love. --Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, coeditor of Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theology through the Wisdom of Women

"""Much Anabaptist missiological literature is mostly male. And growing stale. That will change with Emily Ralph Servant's important work here which brings fresh multidisciplinary lenses to the conversation and the stinging critique that, even though martyrdom stories are cherished within the Anabaptist movement, today's Mennonite reality 'rarely resembles the community of risk-takers who birthed it.' I will buy copies of Servant's book for my congregational leadership team and recommend it in seminary teaching."" --James R. Krabill, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana ""A conversation about risk and mission is overdue in Mennonite contexts. While theological perspectives vary widely across the Anabaptist movement, we can all be challenged by the reminder that love, not fear, is the driver of a truly Jesus-centered church."" --Meghan Larissa Good, Teaching Pastor, Trinity Mennonite Church ""Yes, mission is a risky business; this book calls us back into true mission. Ralph Servant takes the reader through a spiral of liberation, weaving in risk-taking. She holds up a mirror to white churches, reflecting their fear of change and departure from their courageous Anabaptist beginnings. Her zealous prophetic voice reminds the church to give of itself as in Jesus's praxis: in mutual relationships, engaging the margins by practicing 'vulnerable presence, ' and embodying God's love."" --Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, coeditor of Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theology through the Wisdom of Women"

Much Anabaptist missiological literature is mostly male. And growing stale. That will change with Emily Ralph Servant's important work here which brings fresh multidisciplinary lenses to the conversation and the stinging critique that, even though martyrdom stories are cherished within the Anabaptist movement, today's Mennonite reality 'rarely resembles the community of risk-takers who birthed it.' I will buy copies of Servant's book for my congregational leadership team and recommend it in seminary teaching. --James R. Krabill, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana A conversation about risk and mission is overdue in Mennonite contexts. While theological perspectives vary widely across the Anabaptist movement, we can all be challenged by the reminder that love, not fear, is the driver of a truly Jesus-centered church. --Meghan Larissa Good, Teaching Pastor, Trinity Mennonite Church Yes, mission is a risky business; this book calls us back into true mission. Ralph Servant takes the reader through a spiral of liberation, weaving in risk-taking. She holds up a mirror to white churches, reflecting their fear of change and departure from their courageous Anabaptist beginnings. Her zealous prophetic voice reminds the church to give of itself as in Jesus's praxis: in mutual relationships, engaging the margins by practicing 'vulnerable presence, ' and embodying God's love. --Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, coeditor of Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theology through the Wisdom of Women

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Emily Ralph Servant has spent a lifetime serving the church as a worship leader, radio host, pastor, writer, professor, conference minister, and theologian. Dr. Servant is a Leadership Minister for Mosaic Mennonite Conference and lives with her family in Baltimore City, where she teaches--and mostly learns--about God, mission, and being transformed by the creative Spirit.

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