Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962

Harold S. Bender was a key Mennonite leader during the turbulent mid-twentieth century, helping to shape creative institutional responses to urgent issues: war and its aftermath, modernization, industrialization, and the Fundamentalist-modernist debate. This biography brings this pivotal figure to life again for the contemporary church. Clearly written and painstakingly researched, the book stands as a monument to that living monument to Mennonite faith, Bender himself. (592pp. illus. index. Herald Press, 1998.)