Anabaptist World

13/02/2025

With choirs, Aboriginal ­cultural performances and vibrant, joyful worship, the Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan celebrated its 70th anniversary Oct. 12-13 at the Chientan Youth Activity Center in Taipei.

13/02/2025

The Invitation seeks a Holy Spirit revival like the first Anabaptists experienced

When Felix Manz, Conrad Grebel and George Blaurock rebaptized each other in Zurich in 1525, there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Other people began to confess their sins, repent and be rebaptized. The movement spread to other Swiss cities. It was a Holy Spirit revival. Five hundred years late...

12/02/2025

Mennonites in Virginia’s Rockingham County range from the Old Order buggy-driving community to Eastern Mennonite University’s liberal arts university community, and everything between. For the first half of our 250-year history in these parts, Mennonites were all one group. But since the first major division of 1901 — and many more since — the myriad groups of Shenandoah Valley Anabaptists have never gathered in the same space at the same time to worship and give gratitude to God for our shared history and the bonds that still unite us.

Mennonites in Virginia’s Rockingham County range from the Old Order buggy-driving community to Eastern Mennonite University’s liberal arts university community, and everything between.

12/02/2025

Two dozen Christian and Jewish faith groups challenge Trump administration Mennonite Church USA

In the suit, MC USA specifically “renounces the indifference to and mistreatment of undocumented and documented immigrants and commits itself to joining God’s reconciling mission and to living and acting as sisters and brothers in Christ regardless of legal status.”

11/02/2025

A good model is the Nuns & Nones, a movement that invites religiously disaffiliated young people to deepen their spirituality by discussing the moral values that motivate them.

Over the past few years, clergy, academics, the media and atheist activists have been intently talking about the growing number of Americans who no longer identify with any religious tradition — those whom pollsters identify as “nones,” because they answer survey questions about their faith wi...

10/02/2025

Anabaptists around the world celebrated 500 years of Anabaptism around the week of Jan. 19, some marking it during Sunday worship services and others in special gatherings and conferences. These reports are not fully representative of the scope of activities across several continents.

Anabaptists around the world celebrated 500 years of Anabaptism around the week of Jan. 19, some marking it during Sunday worship services and others in special gatherings and conferences.

10/02/2025

Over the sounds of construction machinery dismantling inauguration-related viewing stands and other structures in front of the White House, faith-based advocates for refugees worked to make their voices heard Feb. 4 in Lafayette Square.

Over the sounds of construction machinery dismantling inauguration-related viewing stands and other structures in front of the White House, faith-based advocates for refugees worked to make their voices heard Feb. 4 in Lafayette Square. “ Gracious God, we gather on this day so that we might bear.....

07/02/2025

Foraging nuts and planting trees, Levi Geyer tries to leave the land better than he found it

One of the few producers of hickory oil in the United States, Levi Geyer knows yellowbud hickory trees better than almost anyone else today. He also knows his neighbors better than many people — and that’s not a coincidence.

05/02/2025

Mothers, without comfort,
mourning for their children,
because they are no more.

Rising from Ramah, loud lament, Rachel, inconsolable, crying for her children— their bodies beaten, brutalized, burned, scattered across landscape; their lives carried away, taken captive, huddled in darkness, held under death’s shadow; their futures uprooted, stripped of leaf and flower, left t...

05/02/2025

What keeps jumping out is the extraordinary integration of human and spiritual values, beauty, intelligence and art revealed throughout Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s long and endearing life.

When I was a freshman at a Jesuit high school in Los Angeles, my English composition teacher drummed into us the importance of unity, emphasis and coherence. Pope Francis’ new memoir, Hope: The Autobiography (Penguin/Viking), ghost-written by Carlo Musso, strikes me as a luminous example of these ...

04/02/2025

Our forebears challenged authoritarian regimes. Now some of us vote for one.

Months before the November 2024 election, I began to prepare my church for the possibility of a second Trump term. I knew that ascendancy of Donald Trump to the highest office in the country would bring pain and difficulty to our church and our community. Already, in the first few weeks of office, t...

04/02/2025

My brother felt the ‘shame’ of his disability. The idea that some bodies are better than others is deadly.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family with seven children, a typically large brood for that era. My oldest brother, Kevin, was born in 1955 with spina bifida, a severe spinal disorder.

03/02/2025

The most recent vehicle auctioned to support Mennonite Central Committee was so particularly nasty, it had to find an alternative venue.

03/02/2025

Nace Lanier was at home on Jan. 29, watching a movie with his family when he received an emergency text from Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, where he is senior chaplain.

Nace Lanier was at home on Jan. 29, watching a movie with his family when he received an emergency text from Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, where he is senior chaplain. After years of preparing for a rare and forbidding moment, the Southern Baptist minister headed to Reagan National ...

03/02/2025

The Vancouver Island University women’s basketball team refused to play a pair of games against Mennonite-affiliated Columbia Bible College in January because of alleged verbal and physical mistreatment of a transgender teammate by Columbia’s coach and players in October.

31/01/2025

President Donald J. Trump needs our prayers, just as all national leaders need the prayers of the people. Americans are divided between those who think he is God’s gift to the nation and those who think he is the devil incarnate. All should pray for him, even those who hate him.

President Donald J. Trump needs our prayers, just as all national leaders need the prayers of the people. Americans are divided between those who think he is God’s gift to the nation and those who think he is the devil incarnate. All should pray for him, even those who hate him. Praying for the pr...

31/01/2025

Taxpayers fund U.S.-backed wars. What’s a peacemaker to do?

What is our peace church witness against war when the U.S. military no longer demands our bodies but depends on our financial support? What shape does our conscientious objection take today, and how could it be a force for change?

30/01/2025

Thousands of families are deeply worried about their future under the Trump administration. Constant fear surrounds the adults and children potentially affected by the mass deportations that began Jan. 20.

Thousands of families are deeply worried about their future under the Trump administration. Constant fear surrounds the adults and children potentially affected by the mass deportations that began Jan. 20. In my congregation, Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Gainesville, Fla., dozens of families are wor...