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Showalter: World Neighbors

Kathleen Kern, Ryan Rodrick Beiler and Richard Showalter

Showalter: New England gospel

Authentic movements to Jesus happen all over the globe. From North America, though, sometimes it seems they’re all “out there” in Africa, Asia or Latin

Richard Showalter

August 27, 2018

Showalter: Dynamic, yet insular

The Korean Christian churches are an intriguing phenomenon of the past 100 years. Protestant Christianity arrived in Korea only after 1880, but the Korean church

Richard Showalter

July 16, 2018

Showalter: Visible righteousness

“Baptists are good at getting people converted, but Mennonites are better at making disciples.” It’s a stereotype and, like most, holds a grain of truth.

Richard Showalter

June 4, 2018

Showalter: Suffer and send: a Garifuna movement

No one knows for sure how the Garifuna got here. Probably they emerged from a shipwrecked slave ship on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent

Richard Showalter

April 23, 2018

Showalter: God still tends roots

Fran Martin, a Mennonite woman in eastern Pennsylvania, accompanied a friend to India 10 years ago. She was certain she would never return to India.

Richard Showalter

March 12, 2018

Showalter: Do we miss the heart of the gospel?

“What are the markers of Anabaptism?” asked Nelson Kraybill, president of Mennonite World Conference, to a panel at the annual meeting of the North American

Richard Showalter

January 29, 2018

Showalter: Searching for identity

The global rise of nationalism, often in the form of populism, is astonishing in its variety and extent. There seems scarcely a nation unaffected. Perhaps

Richard Showalter

December 18, 2017

Showalter: Helping, not hurting

This autumn I was invited to a remarkable meeting. Two African and two Asian mission leaders met with the mission committee of a North American

Richard Showalter

November 6, 2017

Showalter: The evangelists we need

In my young adulthood, evangelists were preachers who publicly called people to commitment to Christ. “If you are ready to invite Jesus to be your

Richard Showalter

September 25, 2017

Showalter: What makes a convert?

Why do evangelicals become Anabaptists? Why do Anabaptists become Orthodox or Catholic? Why do Orthodox or Catholics become evangelicals? Why do young people leave “the

Richard Showalter

August 14, 2017

Showalter: Christianity amid the new nationalisms

Around the globe, nationalism is resurgent to a level not seen since World War II. There are many examples: Brexit in Britain, Narendra Modi in

Richard Showalter

July 3, 2017

Showalter: Tanzanians’ audacious goal

It is exciting to witness how Anabaptist churches of the Global South are pursuing their goals. Tanzanian Mennonites may be the most ambitious of all.

Richard Showalter

May 22, 2017

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