John D. Roth is project director of MennoMedia’s Anabaptism at 500 project, which commemorates the first adult baptisms in Zurich in January 1525—the symbolic start of the Anabaptist movement. Before ...

Anabaptism and the Black church can help the West to reform a “mainstream Christianity” rooted in power, control, and domination, according to this thought-provoking treatise from Hart (Trouble I’ve ...

I became an Anabaptist because of George W. Bush. Well, not so much Bush personally—though the former president’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the context in which I began to grapple with what ...

Anabaptism threw up many fascinating characters, whose radical Christian ideas became a source of inspiration to tens of thousands of people. One of the most significant was Melchior Hoffman, who ...

BLUFFTON — A panel of Bluffton University faculty, students, and alumni will discuss the meaning of the Anabaptist faith tradition at 11 a.m. Jan. 28 in Yoder Recital Hall. The panel includes Micah ...

BLUFFTON — A Bluffton University communication professor will talk about the Bible and Anabaptist tradition’s beginnings at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall on the ...

Church leaders, members of the Mennonite community and scholars from as far as Indonesia and Ethiopia will gather next week at Elizabethtown College for a conference exploring the history and global ...

Under cover of darkness, a dozen or so men quietly walked through the falling snow in Zurich, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 1525. The winter wind seemed to match the chill in their hearts as they made ...

The history of Anabaptists can be appealing to folks that are fed up with the status quo of society and want to instigate social revolution. Yet many people that have that spark and then join ...

- a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state ...