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Rich Preheim and John Sharp

History: Enduring witness of the ‘Bloody Theater’

The 17th century has been called the Dutch Golden Age, when the Nether-lands rose to international prominence in commerce, art and science. It was a

Rich Preheim

August 19, 2019

History: Big family begat bigger church

Christian (1788-1846) and Christiana Buzzard Holdeman (1788-1865) had Mennonite church leaders in their family tree. Christian’s father had been a minister, while Christiana’s great-grandfather was

Rich Preheim

July 8, 2019

History: Gold or not, West Coast beckoned

By the mid-19th century, North American Mennonites and Amish had barely crossed the Mississippi River, venturing west only as far as southeastern Iowa. That changed

Rich Preheim

May 27, 2019

History: From Mennonite to Missionary

North American Mennonite history is peppered with schisms prompted by disagreements over issues such as prayer meetings, revival meetings, conversion experiences and Sunday schools. Seven

Rich Preheim

April 15, 2019

History: A Mennonite college at a state university

Illinois State University’s academic programs are organized into six colleges: Applied Science and Technology, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Fine Arts and the Mennonite College

Rich Preheim

March 4, 2019

History: The first non-Western Mennonites

Mennonites today are found on every continent of the world (save for Antarctica, of course). But in the mid-19th century, the original Anabaptists’ spiritual descendants lived only in North America and Europe. It was a lily-white church.

Rich Preheim

January 21, 2019

History: From ‘Tauferkammer’ to Burkina Faso

In 1743, 275 years ago, the Swiss city of Bern dissolved its Commission for Anabaptist Affairs, or Tauferkammer. It had been established in 1659 to

Rich Preheim

December 3, 2018

History: At war’s end, a last gasp of violence

One hundred years ago next month, on Nov. 11, 1918, an armistice brought World War I to an end, ceasing the four-year-old conflagration that resulted

Rich Preheim

October 22, 2018

History: An evolution from Amish

In the 21st century, “conservative” is wrapped in layers of often-ambiguous political, religious and cultural meanings. That’s a big reason why the Conservative Mennonite Conference

Rich Preheim

September 8, 2018

History: A grand adventure in Alaska

By the early 1870s, the young General Conference Mennonite Church was earnestly desiring to begin its own mission program. Since its creation in 1860, it

Rich Preheim

July 30, 2018

History: When Mennonites persecuted Mennonites

Since Anabaptism’s birth nearly five centuries ago, adherents have been persecuted for their faith by civil authorities, from Austrian archdukes to American courts to Vietnamese

Rich Preheim

June 18, 2018

History: A Beachy Amish dalliance while on the lam

He arrived in the Beachy Amish community as Bill Sousa, a drifter with an aimless soul. He left as Ernest Collins, a convicted felon who

Rich Preheim

May 7, 2018
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