A 38-year-old Dominican makes the fundamentals of contemplative life more accessible to laypeople.
A 38-year-old Dominican makes the fundamentals of contemplative life more accessible to laypeople.
Growing up Southern Baptist in West Virginia in the 1990s and early 2000s, Anna Rollins heard one message clearly: Your body is a liability. Like many evangelical Christian women raised at a time when secular America became consumed with diet culture and evangelicalism sought to control young women through purity culture, Rollins tried to transcend her body altogether, restricting her eating and exercising obsessively.
Accidental deaths by gun are the No. 1 killer of children in this country, more even than car crashes, which, to me, is incredible.
Palestinian Christians living in Israel and the West Bank may not have suffered the calamities inflicted on Gaza these past two years, but they, too, have been traumatized by the punishing war.
Spanking is just one feature of what Burt and Kramer McGinnis call the “Christian Parenting Empire,” an interconnected movement of evangelical authors and ministry leaders who’ve marketed their rigid parenting methods as God-endorsed. Citing the Bible, these leaders teach that instant obedience, corporal punishment, conformity and hierarchical family structures will guarantee faithful children.
The October 2025 issue of Anabaptist World includes several mini reviews of recent memoirs and personal reflections on theology.
My 8-Year-old has a favorite Anabaptist “hero.” Her name is Helena von Freyberg.
Can poetry or other writing really be “Mennonite”? Scholars have debated this question for decades.
John L. Ruth wrote ’Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite View of the American Revolution because he couldn’t find stories about his eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the American Revolution in history books.
