anabaptist

By refusing to swear oaths, 16th-century Anabaptists took away the state’s primary tool for control.

If I want kinship with my Anabaptist ancestors, I know where to look: in prison.

“This is not a Bible just for Mennonites,” says Anabaptism at 500 project director John Roth.

In the Mennonite tradition, we are all priests. But I still have a particular role to play.

Bodies get sick. What becomes of a church body when we enact unity at the table while ignoring our brokenness?

The problem isn’t police-community relations. It’s our acceptance of a broken system.

In 1960, when Vincent Harding moved to Atlanta, he began trying to weld together the ongoing nonviolent activism being lived out by some in the Black Church with the peace witness of the Mennonite Church. This effort became less than a decade long experiment, because Harding would eventually break formal ties with the Mennonite Church. Though his time and effort keeping a foot simultaneously in both the Black community and Mennonite community was fixed should not suggest to us that he no longer had an important role to play in for Mennonite lived faith or that he did not continue to influence the Mennonite Church deeply. In fact, his ongoing legacy for the Mennonite Church lives on today.

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