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Willard Swartley is professor emeritus at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. He joined the faculty at AMBS in 1978 and continued teaching until 2004. He served as academic dean at AMBS for seven years (1979 81; 1995 2001).Willard was the youngest in a family of eight children growing up on a farm near the Delaware River on the rolling hills of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite University, Goshen Biblical Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary where he received a PhD in 1973.While he was in seminary, Willard became pastor and was ordained at Locust Grove Mennonite Church in Elkhart. He has served the church in many capacities over the years, leading seminars at church-wide conventions, serving on special study committees, and teaching in congregational settings.He has authoredHealth, Healing and the Church s Mission(InterVarsity, 2012);Covenant of Peace(Eerdmans, 2006);Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women(Herald Press, 1983); andMark, the Way for All Nations(Herald Press, 1983, Wipf & Stock, 1999). He has also edited over thirty books, including, with Perry B. Yoder,The Meaning of Peace(Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2001);Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New Testament(W/JK, 1992; now available from editor Swartley); and with C, J. Dyck,Annotated Bibliography of Mennonite Writings on War and Peace: 1930 1980(Herald Press, 1987; now available from the Institute of Mennonite Studies).