Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2025


Front Matter

Front Matter

JPAC Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities

2026-01-29 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2025

Editors' Introduction

Joseph F. Donnermeyer and Steven M. Nolt

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In Memoriam

In Memoriam: David Luthy (1941-2025)

Mark Dewalt and Joseph F. Donnermeyer

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Articles

Hutterite History as a Refugee Story

Emmy Barth Maendel

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An Early Nineteenth-Century Virginia Mennonite Church Ordnung

Evan K. Knappenberger

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The Extent and Nature of Motor Vehicle and Buggy Crashes

Mark W. Dewalt and Rachel E. Stein

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Research Notes

Research Note: Hutterite Population and Colonies, 2024, with a 15-Year Comparison of Colony Numbers

Steven M. Nolt

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Research Note: Measuring the Amish Vote in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2024

Steven M. Nolt and Kyle C. Kopko

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Introducing Centers for Plain Community Research

Pequea Bruderschaft Library

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Reviews

Book Review: Jesse Hofer and Kenny Wollman, editors. For God’s Truth: A Hutterite History Reader. McGregor, MB: Hutterian Brethren Book Centre, 2024. 487 pp.

Edsel Burdge Jr.

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Book Review: Kenny Wollmann, editor. Navigating Tradition and Innovation: Essays Commemorating the Permanent Settlement of Hutterites in Manitoba. MacGregor, MB: Hutterian Brethren Book Centre, 2024. 424 pp.

Martin Lutz

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Book Review: Beth Oberholtzer. Amish Weddings: From Courtship to Celebration. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2025. 191 pp.

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

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Book Review: Lucinda J. Kinsinger. Turtle Heart: Unlikely Friends with a Life-Changing Bond. Plymouth, MA: Elk Lake Publishing, Inc., 2021. 316 pp.

Shirley Hershey Showalter

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Index to Volumes 1–5

JPAC Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities

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