Mission workers encourage gender equality for Hmong in Southeast Asia
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.
African Mennonite women have been leaders of renewal and revival. They have been prophets and healers. They have witnessed miracles and cast out demons.
The October 2025 issue of Anabaptist World includes several mini reviews of recent books on faith and introspection.
“Sisters, we’ve been brainwashed,” said Shannon Dycus, interim president of Eastern Mennonite University, in her keynote address to 185 attendees at Mennonite Church USA’s Women’s Summit on July 8 in Greensboro, N.C.
