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Managing A Merger, William Vance Trollinger
Managing A Merger, William Vance Trollinger
History Faculty Publications
It was not the sort of place where one would expect to find the folks who produced the More-with-Less Cookbook, but the massive and hermetically sealed Opryland complex in Nashville was where 9,330 Mennonites gathered in early July for a momentous meeting. The two largest Mennonite bodies in the U.S. — the General Conference Mennonite Church (established in 1860) and the Mennonite Church (formally established in 1898, but with roots that go back much further) — voted to merge into one denomination, the Mennonite Church USA, after first finding a way to address the issue of homosexuality.
In Lockdown America: The Corruption Of Capital Punishment, William Vance Trollinger
In Lockdown America: The Corruption Of Capital Punishment, William Vance Trollinger
History Faculty Publications
Reviews of three books:
- Randolph Loney, A Dream of the Tattered Man: Stories from Georgia’s Death Row.
- Austin Sarat, When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.
- Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America.
Author's introduction: I finish this review in the shadow of Timothy McVeigh's execution. But while America's most notorious mass murderer is dead, and while the pundits continue to argue the merits and meaning of his execution, news about capital punishment just keeps coming. Next after McVeigh on the federal death list is Juan Raul Garza, but because …