As war closed in, so did pressure on Mennonites to conform
Joel Horst Nofziger
Joel Horst Nofziger is executive director of the Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, Pa., and a postgraduate researcher with the Centre for Anabaptist Studies in Bristol, U.K. He is a member of Methacton Mennonite Church and also attends Keystone Friends Monthly Meeting with his wife, Eileen Kinch.
It’s a well-known story. It was July 25, 1896, and there had been a party at the home of John
