John E. Sharp

"A necktie and a plain coat: Mennonite leader Orie O. Miller donned both, thus
straddling the demands of the business world and the calling of his beloved
church. In a century marked by two devastating world wars, the fractious
fundamentalist-modernist debate, and growing diversity in the church, Miller
helped to lead Mennonites from rural isolation to global engagement. Sharp
describes how Miller led Mennonite work in education, missions, peacemaking,
postwar reconstruction, and mental health, thus molding most major Mennonite
agencies, including Mennonite Central Committee and Goshen College. Filled with
previously untold stories of Miller's personal life - his childhood, college
years, marriage, and internal conflict between his responsibility to his family
and commitment to his beloved church - this inspiring and comprehensive
biography traces the contours of twentieth-century Anabaptism through the
theology and vocation of one of its most influential leaders." --back cover… (mehr)