Renovations continue with Simone Weil House and the Gene Stoltzfus Center for Creative Peacemaking (which occupies the lower level of the house). We’re hoping to be done with renovations before summer.

One of the Gene Stoltzfus Center offerings is our peace library. We’ve got a software system that will allow folks to check out books (and will have a comfortable area for folks to drop in and read). And, while we have several hundred books already, we’d like more.

All throughout May, we’ll be having a book drive at the Mennonite Worker. We’ll be accepting book donations every day at 2420 11th Ave S in Minneapolis. If you have books to drop by, contact us or just drop them off during daytime hours (the front door is unlocked during the day.

If you aren’t in the Twin Cities, we’d also welcome book donations via the mail:

The Mennonite Worker
2420 11th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55404

In particular, we want books on nonviolence, social justice, spirituality/prayer, biblical or theological scholarship from a radical perspective, radical politics/economics, DIY literature, indigenous justice, simple living, hospitality, ecology, food justice, or anything related to living radically in the US Empire. We’re also open to literature (particularly for children) that touches on any of these themes.

Any books that don’t quite seem to fit in the library will be sold at a local bookstore and used to purchase books on our wish list.

We’re open to any books that fit the themes outlines above. However, these books are on the top of our wish-list: