(RNS) — Anabaptists around the world are commemorating 500 years since their founders performed the first adult baptisms outside Zürich and kicked off the Radical Reformation. A tradition that ...
Von Gunten says the idea to put the spotlight on Anabaptist history was hatched in 2003 during a series of events in the Emmental region to mark the 350th anniversary of the failed uprising known as ...
Not so fast my neo-Anabaptist brothers (and sisters?). It seems like a brief and short response to the prevalent myth running in neo-Anabaptist circles, in regards to the problem of white homogeneity ...
Donald Kraybill can breathe a parental-like sigh of relief. His "Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites" is fully grown now and making its way in the world. The book ...
(UNDATED) In the early 16th century, groups of European Christians started splitting from the Roman Catholic Church in what is now known as the Protestant Reformation. But while Protestants and ...
I do not consider my becoming Anabaptist a rejection of what I have been, namely, Pentecostal and Baptist. Both have strong elements of the Anabaptist vision and ethos within them. Many Baptist ...
So asked the Patheos director of content as we discussed this blog. He was concerned that people wouldn’t get the title. And he has a point. As far as I know, revisions isn’t an Anabaptist expression.
Liz Hess' painting of the Emmental area in Switzerland looks deceptively idyllic: Green pastures, snow-capped mountains, a church spire, grazing cows, gentle farms and a winding pathway. It's only the ...
While many people might know of Münster as a wealthy uni town or the country's bike capital, few know that it belongs to a strange, violent period in history when radicals tried to set up a theocracy.
How the Anabaptist emphasis on practical acts of love led a tightly knit enclave to reach out to the world. A woodcut in the 17th-century Anabaptist Martyrs Mirror shows Dirk Willems, an early Dutch ...