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Article: "On the Journey Home": the History of Mission of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1946-1968.(Book Review)
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- March 1, 2005
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"On the Journey Home": The History of Mission of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1946-1968. By J. Steven O'Malley. United Methodist Church History of Mission Series. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 2003. xiv + 285 pp. Appendices, notes, select bibliography. $21.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.
An inevitable nostalgia surrounds Steven O'Malley's tribute to what began as one of many German-language pietist groups in a now vanished rural North America. Doctoral students will thank him for helping them keep straight the distinctions among The United Evangelical Church, the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, and the later ...