About the Author

Doris Janzen Longacre home economist, theologian, and advocate for the world's hungry, wrote the More-with-Less cookbook, which as sold nearly one-million copies, and Living More-with-Less. Valerie Weaver-Zercher is a writer and editor in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in Orion, Sojourners, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Publishers Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, and The Mennonite, among others. She is a contributing editor to Sojourners and a book reviewer for Christian Century, and her work has been nominated for and received special mention for a Pushcart Prize. Valerie, her husband and three children attend Slate Hill Mennonite Church.