The nearly 500-year tradition of rebaptism was alive and well at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind., on Oct. 1. Eight of the 25 adults who joined the church that day had been baptized as infants in Catholic churches in Central and South America.
For some time now, popular culture has used people’s fascination with the Amish to create attractive yet false impressions of that group.
The Nov. 24 issue of Anabaptist World included several mini reviews of recent books. Some of them are nonfiction books.
Hans von Niessen, a resettlement supervisor who organized the migration of more than 100,000 Mennonite Russian Germans out of the Soviet Union, died Oct. 20 in Neuwied, Germany. He was 94.
I am a child of Egyptian immigrants who survived the wars between Israel and Egypt. When I consider the current conflict in Israel-Palestine, I feel solidarity with the Palestinians. We share a language, a landscape, a culture.
Mennonites and Catholics gathered Nov. 8 to remember early Anabaptist leader Michael Sattler in the German church where he served as a Benedictine monk.