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Winchester has ‘Blasphemy Response Challenge’

Posted by Terry White on September 21, 2007  |  No Comments

From today’s Winchester (Virginia) Star:

Winchester Grace Brethren Church, 143 Greenwood Road, is sponsoring a Blasphemy Response Challenge. Participants will make a video to post on YouTube.

For more information, contact Pastor Matt Lohr at 662-6360 or Susan Watson at 540-267-2647.

Jena Six Through Eyes of a Different Solomon

Posted by Terry White on September 20, 2007  |  No Comments

BMH Books author Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D. (right), who has written Spiritual Friends and Soul Physicians, is also the author of a recent book entitled Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction. Kellemen, who is head of the counseling program at Capital Bible Seminary, wrote the following reflections on the current Jena Six issue:

Jena, Louisiana, has become a national hotspot after over a year’s worth of racial tension. In September 2006, latent animosity boiled over when a black high school freshman asked if he could sit under what had become known as the “White Tree.”

The next day, three white students hung nooses from the tree. When the principal’s attempt to expel the students was shot down by the board, more racial friction erupted.

A little more than three months after the unconscionable noose incident, six black students beat up a white student until he was knocked unconscious. After a three-hour hospital visit, he was released. When the town prosecutor initially charged the “Jena Six” with attempted murder, charges of racism rose again.

It would take the proverbial wisdom of Solomon to dissect the truth in this difficult situation. Clearly, a more strident response against the initial hate crime of hanging the nooses should have occurred. Shame on the school board for backing down.

And while charges of attempted murder never were judicially appropriate in this case, those who minimized the attack also have some explaining to do. What would people call it if six white students punched, stomped, and beat one black student until he was unconscious?

But I don’t have the wisdom of Solomon to sort through all the claims and counterclaims to uncover the facts. What is needed is a modern-day Solomon, and not even the Solomon of the Bible, but a black man named Solomon Northrup who spent twelve years enslaved in Louisiana.

This Solomon had the ability to look at life without having the color of one’s skin color his perspective. He could objectively evaluate situations based upon foundational principles of justice.

Born a free black man in 1808 in Maine, at age 33 Northrup was kidnapped and spent twelve years enslaved near the Red River in Louisiana. A learned man and a successful businessman, he penned his own story in 1853. In his narrative, Northrup had no problem condemning cruel slave owners such as John M. Tibeats, describing his repeated brutality and malice.

However, Northrup could see beyond the color of one’s skin and even beyond religious hypocrisy and social injustice. Though recognizing the inconsistency of his white master, William Ford, a slave-owning Baptist preacher, Northrup still could note, “It is but simple justice to him when I say, in my opinion, there never was a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William Ford.”

Northrup detailed page after page of Ford’s encouraging preaching and caring personal ministry to him and to other black men and women.

Solomon Northrup displayed the wisdom of Solomon that the people of Jena, Louisiana, and of all America, could use today. He had the discernment to recognize evil and call it such unashamedly. But he also demonstrated the ability to recognize good in others—even in others who were imperfect, even in others who were of a different hue, even in others who were treating him unjustly.

Nationally, pundits, people, pastors, and politicians are taking sides, pitting themselves against each another, claiming to have cornered the market on the truth of the “Jena Six” case.

Yet, everyone seems to see the truth through colored lenses filled with preconceived notions, personal ideologies, and cultural baggage. Can’t someone step back and see the big picture with the eyes of Solomon—of Solomon Northrup?

Elk Creek Church to Launch Sunday

Posted by Terry White on September 20, 2007  |  No Comments

Under the direction of church planter Mike Silliman and his wife, Naomi (pictured), the Elk Creek Church will officially launch its church plant this Sunday, September 23. The service will be held in a public school near West Grove (Chester County), Pennsylvania.

The Sillimans and the launch team have a goal of 100-plus people on this launch Sunday. The sponsoring church is Gateway Grace Community Church in Parkesburg, where Dan O’Deens is pastor.

Kenn Cosgrove Participates in 300th Opening

Posted by Terry White on September 18, 2007  |  No Comments

Kenn Cosgrove (right), pastor of the Grace Brethren church in Royersford, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Germantown Trust, gave a tour of the cemetery that lies behind the Germantown, PA, church as part of the opening ceremonies of the 300th anniversary of the Brethren movement. (Glenn Riegel photo)

This past weekend, September 15-16, Germantown Church of the Brethren in Philadelphia hosted the opening event of a year-long celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Brethren movement, which began in Germany in 1708.

Events took place at the “mother church,” the first congregation of Brethren in the Americas, and featured worship, workshops, tours, exhibits, and music. About 150 people registered Saturday, and close to 220 attended worship on Sunday, filling the Germantown sanctuary to capacity.

The congregation was founded on Christmas Day 1723 by German immigrants to the Americas, and its meetinghouse built in 1770 was the first Brethren meetinghouse in the US. Today the predominantly African-American congregation includes several members from African countries, with the pastor coming originally from Ghana.

Festivities kicked off with a lunch served by the Germantown Women’s Fellowship under a tent on the church’s front lawn. Following lunch, participants chose from a variety of workshops on subjects such as the Sauer Bible, outreach ministries at Germantown, the history of the congregation, a Bible study on the anniversary theme, and several others.

A Germantown Cemetery Tour was led by Kenn Cosgrove, a Grace Brethren member and treasurer of the Germantown Trust, featuring the gravestones of Alexander Mack Sr., the founder of the Brethren movement, and several other important Brethren figures. A Wissahickon Creek Tour took participants to the site of the first Brethren baptisms in the Americas in 1723. A worship concert by musicians and ministers at Germantown closed out the first afternoon of the celebration.

That evening, Coventry Church of the Brethren hosted a hymn sing and pastor Sandy Christophel gave a presentation on the history of the congregation and its links to the Germantown church.

Worship continued on Sunday with a morning service led by the Germantown congregation, and an afternoon service sponsored by the Church of the Brethren denomination, with a catered lunch between.

A comment from Renee Ibo of the Germantown church summed up the celebratory atmosphere of the day’s worship services: “It gives me such a blessing to be part of a church that has such a rich heritage.”

As part of the 300th anniversary celebration, a Brethren Heritage tour is planned for next August to Schwarzenau, Germany, the birthplace of the Brethren movement. Ted Rondeau of Grace Brethren International Missions is organizing the trip.

BMH Authors Sign at Psychology Convention

Posted by Terry White on September 18, 2007  |  No Comments

Dr. Robert Kellemen (seated) was one of three BMH authors who made presentations and autographed copies of their BMH books at the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) convention last week at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.

Kellemen, a Grace Seminary alumnus who is chair of the counseling education department at Capital Bible Seminary, is the author of Spiritual Friends and Soul Physicians. He autographed Spiritual Friends, a psychology workbook, at the convention. Soul Physicians, a 590-page hardback textbook combining theology and psychology, is currently at press and will be available about mid-October.

Also presenting and signing autographs were Grace College & Seminary faculty members Roger Peugh and Tammy Schultz, authors of Transformed in His Presence: The Need for Prayer in Counseling.

BMH Books exhibited its entire line of products at the convention, which was attended by about 7,000 Christian psychologists, counselors, and psychology educators. (Ann Myers photo)

Alta Loma Group Sees Dead Sea Scrolls

Posted by Terry White on September 18, 2007  |  1 Comment

Pastor Roy Halberg (center of photo) of the Grace Brethren church in Alta Loma, California, recently took a group from his church down to San Diego to see the Dead Sea Scrolls. In the photo, from left, are Roger and Jayne Baer, Halberg, Halberg’s mother, Louise Halberg, and Carlos Lascaibar. Here are some of his reflections:

It was pretty impressive.

It included a “virtual tour” of Qumran . . . a video presentation depicting what archaeologists believe Qumran looked like 2,000 years ago . . . ceremonial baths, the scriptorium where scrolls were written and/or copied, a community dining room, etc.

There was also an archaeological exhibit showing what it was like to find and excavate Qumran. This exhibit also included photos describing the process of piecing together the scroll fragments, preserving, and translating them. What a task!

The scrolls themselves were difficult to see and read in the dark lighting conditions they presented. Still, looking at copies of scripture from 2,000+ years ago is pretty awesome. I remember one sign posted over a scroll that contained 51 of the psalms. It stated that this scroll of the psalms demonstrated that the psalms we have in our Bibles are unchanged from those written on these scrolls 2,000 years ago.

I’d been to the Shrine of the Book in Israel and I figured this would not measure up. It wasn’t quite the same . . . but it was well worth the time and the $28 to see it.

Halberg concluded, “Sorry that you’ll miss it. I don’t think they are planning to bring the exhibit to Winona.”

For more information and background, see BMH’s recent publication Dead Sea Scrolls by archaeologist Dr. John Davis at www.bmhbooks.com or call 1-800-348-2756.

Mississauga’s "No-Worship-Service" Worship

Posted by Terry White on September 17, 2007  |  No Comments

Pastor Bartley Sawatsky (right) finished the 10K run yesterday as part of the “No Worship Worship Service” by the Grace Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Mississauga, Ontario. Here is an excerpt from the blog of Grace’s worship pastor, Bart Blair — read more at http://bartblair.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/the-no-worship-.html

In what many might consider a controversial move, we, the leaders at Grace Community Church, canceled our regular Sunday worship services yesterday and planned an all-church participation in our community’s Terry Fox Run.

Health Outreach Effort Summarized

Posted by Terry White on September 17, 2007  |  No Comments

A current article on the website of Journal Chretien gives a short summary of a health outreach in which a Grace Brethren church is involved. Read the entire article at http://www.spcm.org:80/Journal/spip.php?breve1483 . The complete article may also be read at http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07090111.htm

Grace Community Health Center

In the midst of the war in Iraq in 2003 a member of HOME and Grace Brethren Church in Columbus, Ohio, visited Iraq. They were overjoyed to see the spiritual growth of the people and invited four pastors to visit a newly-founded church which had opened only two months after the war began.

Once there they saw the great need for medical care and contacted HOME members. Shortly afterwards, Grace Community Health Center was established.

Recently, a two-story building in Baghdad was leased. Eventually, the clinic will be housed on the ground floor and a Community Center on the top floor.

Two Iraqi physicians, an internist and a dentist came to know the Lord through one of the outreaches held by the church, after which they indicated their desire to become a part of this newly unfolding ministry.

As this ministry is still in its initial stages much help is needed including additional staff, equipment and finances.

Moraski Pens Song for "Stand in the Gap 2007"

Posted by Liz Cutler Gates on September 17, 2007  |  No Comments

Karl Moraski (pictured at right), the worship leader at Hope Community Church, a Grace Brethren church in Raleigh, N.C., has written a song for the Stand in the Gap 2007 event, which is planned for October 6 in Washington D.C. Stand in the Gap is a once-a-decade gathering of Christian men from across the country that will be held on the grounds of the Washington Monument. To listen to the song, click here.

Some Suggestions for Pastor Appreciation Month

Posted by Terry White on September 12, 2007  |  No Comments

By Bill Ellis
Special to ASSIST News Service

SCOTT DEPOT, WV (ANS) — Pastors are among the most significant and respected men and women in the nation. They are the country’s spiritual leaders. It is a divine calling. Speaking of Christ and His mission on this earth, St. Paul said, “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry . . . ” (Ephesians 4:11-12).

Pastors are called by God and placed in the church to help lead, teach, train, nourish and assist others to mature in their spiritual lives. Pastors advise, instruct, comfort and stand by us in the most important and difficult times of life.

Years ago someone came up with the idea that pastors should be honored and blessed by their congregations each year during October. Include special recognition for each member of the ministerial staff. Here are some suggestions to which you may add hundreds more as to what you and others may do.

1. Provide for the pastor and family a special dinner, at your expense, either at your house or some restaurant of choice.

2. If the pastor is a golfer, bowler, sports fan, fisher, hunter or involved in any unusual activity, the church or individuals might assume the expense for such an occasion 3-6 times each year.

3. Keep a scrapbook each year of all that happens in the life of the pastor and the church. Mrs. Charles (Nona) Cissna kept such books for more than 20 years for her pastor at Peoples Church of God, Decatur, Illinois. He calls them, “one of the finest and most enjoyable gifts I ever received — a treasure for the rest of life.”

4. Write news releases for the church and pastor if you have journalistic and computer skills. It can be learned. I have taught hundreds of people how to do it.

5. Provide the pastor and spouse with a trip to the Holy Land. It will enrich their preaching and teaching ministry. Buy them a ticket to the Holy Land — and the return ticket.

6. Be sure your pastor is enrolled in the church’s pension plan or some other that might be even better. Dr. E. E. Wolfram used to say, “The church calls a pastor for 40 years, but God calls them for life.”

7. Help your pastor purchase his own house in which to live. If they live in a church owned parsonage, be sure to provide a housing equity plan so when the time comes to purchase their own house they will have enough money to do so.

8. Provide academic educational opportunities for the pastor that will carry through the masters and doctoral levels. These study opportunities will serve to bless the church.

9. The congregation can provide vacation time and expenses for the pastor and family. Too often they do not earn enough for family vacations.

10. Provide expense allowances for all ministry-related events such as, conventions, ministers meetings, camp meetings, mission trips and a service club.

11. A generous book allowance and a new book or two each month are a genuine blessing.

12. The church should always make certain that the pastor has a new or newer car that is safe, dependable, comfortable and with good tires.

13. Being a “Baker’s dozen” this last suggestion is that you simply tell your pastor how much he is appreciated by cards, letters, simple gifts and other gestures.

Let your pastor know how much they are appreciated by you and your family. As I was growing up, the pastor was an increasingly significant person in my life and for each member of the family. They were my mentors and my examples on how to live.

Leesburg, IN, to Host Bluegrass Festival

Posted by Terry White on September 12, 2007  |  No Comments

Leesburg, Indiana, Grace Brethren Church (Tim Sprankle, pastor) will host a Bluegrass Festival Saturday, October 13 from 3 to 7 p.m. at 101 E. School St. in Leesburg.

The event will feature live music, kids’ games, a chili contest and other events.

Artists scheduled to appear are JD Woods, Don Taylor, John Miller and a Crying Shame.

Soto Feather Seizure Hearing Postponed

Posted by Terry White on September 10, 2007  |  No Comments

Robert Soto, a professional Native American dancer who also pastors the McAllen Grace Brethren Church in McAllen, Texas, has been involved in a protracted legal situation.

Soto had some of his feathers seized by the Department of Interior. A hearing, originally scheduled for September 7, has been postponed. Here are excerpts from his most recent update—more details are available on his website at www.sontree.org (photo from “Feather Surrender Ceremony”)

I find it hard to believe that on August 11, we celebrated 1 1/2 years since the Department of Interior came to our pow wow and took 42 of our eagle feathers. I have gotten well over 5,000 e-mails from people all over the world concerning this event.

Instead of granting the motion to dismiss our case, the judge set a court date for September 7, 2007, for a status hearing where the judge will ask both parties to produce a settlement outside of court. The problem is that the lawyers for the Department of Interior have already said they will not yield to our demand.

We are asking them for three things:

1. Give us our feathers back.

2. Give the rights for all American Indians to use the feathers regardless of status, without fear of the government.

3. Give the Lipan Apache the right to be American Indians and recognize us as American Indians.

We want to thank you for your prayers and for all the letters of support. I just wanted to let you know that our trial scheduled for September 7, 2007, at 2:20 PM has been postponed and moved to another undetermined date.

So we have more time to write or call the people and departments that were mentioned in the letter earlier. I will write again when a new hearing date is scheduled.

Grace Sponsors Holocaust Program

Posted by Terry White on September 10, 2007  |  No Comments

The Department of History and Social Studies at Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana, is co-sponsoring an event that will highlight the testimonies of two Holocaust survivors, Bill and Josephine Meyers. Bill lived next door to Corrie Ten Boom (pictured) and ran errands for her family.

He was captured at the age of 11 and sent to a death camp, where he escaped. If her health permits, Josephine will share her story of being raised by Gypsies in a Nazi-controlled village that was freed by American troops.

Bill has been interviewed by director/producer Steven Spielberg and Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Bell Memorial Public Library in Mentone, Indiana, is the main sponsor and the event is funded by the Indiana Humanities Council.

The program, which is open to the public, will take place on Saturday, September 15, at 4 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Mentone, Indiana, 116 E. Main St. For more information contact Dr. Mark Norris in the history department of Grace College.

Bethel Berne Celebrates 116th on September 30

Posted by Terry White on September 10, 2007  |  1 Comment

Bethel Brethren Church in Berne, Indiana (Joe Nass, pastor) will celebrate its 116th Homecoming on Sunday, September 30, 2007, with former pastor Larry Edwards (pictured at right) as speaker.

Edwards, who is currently pastor of the Southview Grace Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio, will speak during the Sunday School hour and the morning worship.

Edwards has been a pastor for 27 years. He is beginning his 14th year at Southview GBC. A native of the Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, he was a pastor 10 yrs in Berne, Ind. and three years for a church plant at Penn State University. Prior to being a pastor, he taught and coached baseball on the senior high level.

A graduate of Grace College (B.S.- Physical Education, 1968) and Grace Theological Seminary (M. Div. –Christian Education, 1977), Edwards is currently finishing up his doctoral work in Pastoral Ministries.

Pastor Larry and Darlene have been married for 32 years and are the parents of Amber Suzanne and Robert Hanshaw (Los Angles, Ca), Lindsay Johanne (Ashland), Benjamin Joseph III (Ashland) and Kelsey Joy-Marie (Ashland). They have one granddaughter (Amelia Grace).

Former pastor Tim Placeway, now on the staff of the Grace Brethren Church in Elizabethtown, PA, will provide music for the morning and evening, with a special Placeway family concert at 7 p.m. that day.

Placeway has been the Associate Pastor at the Elizabethtown church for 16 years. During that time he has served in the areas of youth ministry and music, growing to love and appreciate the people.

He has a bachelor of Music Education from Grace College and a Masters of Science in Secondary Education from Indiana University. He has been married to Jill for 26 years and they have 3 grown children.

A carry-in fellowship meal will follow the 11 a.m. morning service in the newly-completed addition to the church. A dedication service for the new facility will be held at 1 p.m.

Bethel Brethren Church is located at 718 E. Main Street in Berne, Indiana, 46711.

Hawkins to Lecture, Sign Books

Posted by Terry White on September 10, 2007  |  No Comments

From the South Bend (IN) Tribune “Book Briefs”:

Author will sign books in Winona Lake

The Rev. Gilbert Hawkins will hold a lecture and signing of his book “Marriage Lasts a Lifetime” at the Billy Sunday Visitors Center, 1101 Park Ave. in Winona Lake.

The event will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Hawkins has been a pastor in communities across the country for more than 50 years, and currently serves as volunteer chaplain at Kosciusko Community Hospital.

Vicksburg Ultralight Crash Victim Remembered

Posted by Terry White on September 8, 2007  |  No Comments

An article in today’s Altoona (PA) Mirror celebrates the life of Fred C. Ebersole, Jr. (pictured), of the Vicksburg Grace Brethren Church in Hollidaysburg, PA (Roger K. Myers, pastor) who died this past week in an ultralight aircraft crash. To read the entire article, click on
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/15045.html?nav=742

BROOKES MILLS — Fred C. Ebersole Jr. and his wife, Joan, went to Sam’s Club to buy supplies Aug. 31 for The Door youth ministry in Bellwood.The couple put things in the cart without thinking about the cost of the items.

Fred planned to use the money he received at his 70th birthday party weeks earlier at Vicksburg Grace Brethren Church.

“He said that there wasn’t anything he wanted or needed,” Joan said Friday.Joan went to get the van while Fred checked out. When he came out of the store, he was shaking his head, laughing and smiling. He asked Joan if she had any idea how much the supplies cost.

“I thought it had something to do with the money he got at the party,” she said. “So I said $385.”

“$380.29,” he said.

Fred was given $380.

“It was another providence of God,” Joan said.

The supply run for The Door was one of the last good deeds Fred Ebersole would perform. He died the next day in an ultralight crash at the Blue Knob Airport.

Family and friends remembered Fred’s life and his personal relationship with Jesus Christ during a funeral service Friday at the Vicksburg church. The personal relationship with Jesus Christ is what motivated Fred’s life of good deeds toward family and neighbors, Joan said.

Kent, Ohio, Church Plant Featured

Posted by Terry White on September 8, 2007  |  No Comments

Today’s Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal features a Grace Brethren church plant just off the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Here is a short excerpt. To read the entire article, click on
http://www.ohio.com/news/9657532.html

The Rev. Jonathan Herron brought together 10 people last year to begin a start-from-scratch church that could mesh orthodox theology and unorthodox methods.

So far, they have been successful at Catalyst.

It’s the only church in the city with a bar, where coffee and bottled water are served on Sundays.

Its congregation worships in a 1920s theater, with a live band and digital video.

It doesn’t take up an offering. Instead, there is a joy box in the theater for donations.
The sermons are based on biblical scripture with the goal of developing historically informed Christians.

And everything that is done is geared toward pointing people to Christ. . .

. . . The nondenominational movement is affiliated with the Acts 29 Network and the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. The Brethren fellowship, based in Winona Lake, Ind., is a voluntary association of more than 260 churches in the United States and Canada. Acts 29, based in Seattle, Wash., helps start Gospel-centered, missional churches that then ”plant” other churches.

Laughing Through Cancer

Posted by Terry White on September 7, 2007  |  No Comments

Peggy Free (right), from the Grace Brethren church in Seal Beach, California (Don Shoemaker, pastor), wrote an article for the church’s newsletter entitled “Laughing Through Cancer.” Here is a short excerpt. For the entire story of how this courageous woman’s wacky sense of humor helped her through a crisis, click on http://mysite.verizon.net/resw2g2p/stagegirlpeg/id1.html

If you happened by the Relay for Life table last month in between services, you may have noticed some odd pictures of a woman with a blue head.

Well, that would be me. If you’re curious as to why someone would paint their head blue, I’ll try to explain.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer on January 12, 2007 at the age of 41. I found the lump myself on Christmas day. God was already preparing me the previous November when I chose a new health insurance plan that didn’t require referrals to specialists or approvals for tests. This allowed me to get into the best doctors right away.

When I met my surgeon January 19th, she told me “We’re going to cure you” and I believed her. I knew the road would be rough. Chemotherapy is no picnic. But I knew I would be ok in the end. Who I would be in the end, I didn’t know. Life’s events had already made me a strong woman, like steel. Apparently, God had titanium in mind.

I’ve always liked to entertain and make people laugh. I do community theatre in my spare time when I’m not working as an Avionics engineer at Boeing. As I progressed through my chemo treatments, many tests and surgeries, I needed to find humor and fun wherever I could.

God blessed me with a sense of humor and my doctor told me that is how I deal with things. I needed to make myself laugh to relieve the “little bit of stress” I was under.

Myerstown Celebrates 40 Years This Sunday

Posted by Terry White on September 7, 2007  |  No Comments

This Sunday, September 9, the New Beginnings Grace Brethren Church of Myerstown, Pennsylvania, will observe its 40th anniversary. Special speaker in the 6 p.m. service will be Pastor Jim Custer (pictured at right), who recently retired from a long-term pastorate of the Grace Brethren Church in Worthington (Columbus), Ohio.

The Myerstown church was organized with 12 members in 1967. Among early participants were persons from the Bashore, Bowman, Brightbill, Crouse, Farmer, Hauer, Leonard, Miller, and Ziegler families.

Worship service were held in the Myerstown Fire Hall, then in a Mennonite school building until the first unit of the church building was completed in 1970.

Keith Shearer has been pastor of the Myerstown church since 1995. He was the 2005/2006 moderator of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches and is the author of the BMH book Childlike Faith: Hearing God in Your Bible.

Keith and his wife, Laura, have three children.

Author Madeleine L’Engle Dead at 88

Posted by Terry White on September 7, 2007  |  No Comments

Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 88.

Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most of which were published by FSG. By 2004, A Wrinkle in Time had sold more than 6 million copies, was in its 67th printing and was still selling 15,000 copies a year.

This spring, the Square Fish imprint of Holtzbrinck reissued L’Engle’s Time Quintet in new editions.

Since 1976, Wheaton College in Illinois has maintained a special collection of Madeleine L’Engle’s papers. Wheaton also conferred on her an honorary doctorate. An interview with her appears at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week412/profile.html