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    Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold - A true story of faith, forgiveness, sacrifice, and community
    Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold - A true story of faith, forgiveness, sacrifice, and community
    Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold - A true story of faith, forgiveness, sacrifice, and community
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    Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold - A true story of faith, forgiveness, sacrifice, and community

    By Peter Mommsen and Eugene H. Peterson

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    A dramatic true story of a man refined by fire, a Bruderhof pastor whose spiritual legacy continues to touch thousands.

    Can our wounds become our greatest gift? Bruderhof pastor J. Heinrich Arnold was a broken man. Yet those who knew him said they never met another like him. Some spoke of his humility and compassion; others of his frankness and earthy humor. In his presence, complete strangers poured out their darkest secrets and left transformed. Others met him with hatred.

    Writer Henri Nouwen called him a “prophetic voice” and wrote of how his words “touched me as a double-edged sword, calling me to choose between truth and lies, selflessness and selfishness. . . . Here was no pious, sentimental guide; every word came from experience.”

    Who was this extraordinary yet simple man? In this gripping and richly spiritual book, Peter Mommsen tells the dramatic true story of the grandfather he hardly knew. Read it, and you will never look at your own life the same way again.

    Gold Medal Winner, 2016 IPPY Book of the Year Award in Biography, Independent Publishers
    Silver Medal Winner, 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Association
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlough Publishing House
    Release dateApr 30, 2015
    ISBN9780874865998
    Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold - A true story of faith, forgiveness, sacrifice, and community
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    Peter Mommsen

    Peter Mommsen is the editor of Plough Quarterly magazine. He lives in upstate New York with his wife Wilma and their three children.

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      I've lived in the Mid-Hudson Valley on and off since 1982, so the Hutterite Bruderhof has been sort of vaguely familiar for a long time. Who are these people? Then a few months ago I visited the Woodcrest community for their Harvest Festival. What a delightful group of people! Now, by reading this book, I have a much better sense of their history.Heiner's father started this group in Germany in the 1920s. The group moved to England, then Paraguay, then to the USA. There are and have been other locations but that is the trajectory of the story told here and does seem to be the main channel of the current of the group. I am a Buddhist so a lot of the Christian emphasis of this book doesn't make exact sense to me, but it seems very genuine and it is not so thick as to be confusing. Heiner was a devout Christian and this is his story.This group has been through many difficulties, with both internal and external causes. It's quite amazing that they continue to thrive! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and found it very inspiring. It is really a celebration of the human spirit!

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