Eleanor Kreider


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Adjunct Faculty in Worship and Mission

  • M.Mus., University of Michigan, 1961
  • Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, occasional courses
  • University of Notre Dame, 1979
  • King's College, University of London, 1980-84

E-mail address: kreiderAEL@aol.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Eleanor Kreider combines a background as a musician and a teacher with her experience as a missionary in England. For 17 years she and Alan Kreider, her husband, were directors of the London Mennonite Centre, while serving as lecturers in liturgy and worship. For several years after returning from England, they served as mission educators with Mennonite Mission Network.

Scholarship

  • Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book (Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2005), co-editor
  • A Culture of Peace: God's Vision for the Church (Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2005), with Alan Kreider and Paulus Widjaja
  • Becoming a Peace Church (London: New Ground, 2000), with Alan Kreider; translated into Korean (Seoul: Korea Anabaptist Center, 2003)
  • "Anabaptist Spirituality: Learning to Pray the Prisoners' Way." The Way 39 (July 1999): 281-292
  • "Worship: True to Jesus," in Bernie Neufeld, ed., Music in Worship: A Mennonite Perspective (Scottdale, Herald Press, 1998), 13-30
  • Communion Shapes Character (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1997); also as Given For You: A Fresh Look at Communion (Leicester, InterVarsity Press, 1998)
  • "Praying for Peace," Anabaptism Today, 17 (Spring 1997), 3-7
  • "A Vision of Multi-Voiced Worship," Anabaptism Today, 5 (February 1994), 13-17
  • "The Lord's Supper," Anabaptism Today, 2 (1993), 8-12
  • "Does it matter which Bible translation we use?" Gospel Herald, 16 June 1992, 6-8, and reprinted in many places, including Alpha and Double Image (Men, Women and God)
  • "Love is the Measure," Goshen College Bulletin, March, 1992, 3
  • Enter His Gates: Fitting Worship Together (Basingstoke, Hants, Marshall Pickering, 1989; Scottdale, PA, Herald Press, 1990)
  • "Why do those Mennonites do such funny things? The Mystery of the holy kiss," WMSC Voice, April 1989, 6-8
  • "The Holy Kiss," Wildfire, January 1989, 26-27
  • "Let the Faithful Greet Each Other: The Kiss of Peace," Conrad Grebel Review, 5, no 1 (Winter 1987), 29-49

Speakers Bureau Presentations

  • Anabaptism for the 21st century
  • The early church comes alive
  • Mission and peace
  • Missional church
  • Peace church: what would our churches be like if we believe the "gospel of peace" and apply it to all areas of our life?
  • Worship and mission