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    Peter Mommsen

    Peter Mommsen
    Peter Mommsen is a member of the Bruderhof, an intentional community movement based on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. He is editor of Plough Quarterly magazine, and author of Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold. Mommsen lives in upstate New York with his wife Wilma and their three children. Twitter: @PeterMommsen 

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    • Peter Mommsen’s exceptional study, Homage to a Broken Manis one of the finest ways to learn what Anabaptism (really) is. . . . Anabaptism is not a theory; it is a way of communal life. Mommsen’s story gives us a genuine slice of the reality of that communal life

      Scot McKnight

    • I loved reading about this great man. The book is a treasured part of my library.

      Tony Campolo

    • I was deeply moved by Arnold’s life, by the sufferings of the community, and by the resurrection. I will certainly recommend it to many.

      Jean Vanier, founder, L’Arche communities

    • What a tragic, beautiful life, and recounted with such candor and delicacy. I am delighted, and heartened, and moved to tears.

      Daniel Berrigan, poet and author

    • With candor and honesty, Mommsen shares the joy and pathos, suffering and love, deceit and forgiveness of a Christian community. It is a breathtaking story, and reads like a novel. I couldn’t put it down.

      Donald Kraybill, author, The Upside-Down Kingdom

    • What an extraordinary life! In many ways it’s a sad and sorrowful life – but one lived in the light of the gospel. A truly moving story.

      Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University, author, Hannah’s Child

    • One of the most moving books I have read – and one of the most instructive. For all those concerned with living a life of meaning and integrity, it ought to be required reading.

      Shira Dicker, founder and president, Shira Dicker Media International

    • A challenging, deeply moving, and honest book.

      Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

    • I finished reading the book and was filled with wonder at the life of such a man. What powerful inspiration!

      Martin Sheen, actor

    • What goes through the hearts and minds of great men? In this wise and sensitive volume, Peter Mommsen brings the life of J. Heinrich Arnold into clear and penetrating focus. It is a book full of vital lessons about leadership, patience, sacrifice, and forgiveness.

      Ari Goldman, Columbia University, author, Being Jewish

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