Category Anabaptist

Book Review: God’s Reign and the End of Empires

22 February 2013 Anabaptist, Book Review, Top Stories  3 comments

My review of God's Reign and the End of Empires by Antonio Gonzalez is ready. Enjoy. Engage. Let me know what you think.

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Subtle Racism is dangerous

15 February 2013 Anabaptist, Top Stories  One comment

"Christianity," he said, "made everything the best of its kind."

Most folks probably read that and said, "Amen," right? Sounds like preacher talking. Which is true.

Some who tend to be a little more skeptical

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Remembering the Anabaptists today

21 January 2013 Anabaptist, Martyrdom, Top Stories  5 comments

Remembering the dear legacy of the Anabaptists today.

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Authentic brotherly love and community

15 July 2010 Anabaptist, Theology  No comments

Meditated on this passage from my reading today:
As Dirk writes, authentic brotherly love in the true congregation of God is demonstrated in the ways "that we minister to each other with a willingly extended hand, not only with the spiritual,

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Abortion funding, war funding, and inconsistencies

9 April 2010 Anabaptist, Nonviolence, Theology  3 comments

Thursday afternoon, I was listening to Tuesday's broadcast of Dr. Albert Mohler's radio program via podcast. I like to check out some of his shows because he always has relevant topics, presents his take on it, and interacts with callers and

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Dordrecht Confession of 1632, Article II

8 April 2010 Amish  One comment

Article 2: Of the Fall of Man

We believe and confess, according to the holy Scriptures, that these our first parents, Adam and Eve, did not continue long in this glorious state in which they were created, but that they, seduced by

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Dordrecht Confession of 1632, Article I

5 April 2010 Amish  One comment

Article 1: Of God and the Creation of All Things
Since we find it testified that without faith it is impossible to please God, and that he that would come to God must believe that there is a God, and that He is a rewarder of them that

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Because words matter

12 March 2010 Anabaptist, Featured Highlights, Theology  3 comments

Words matter. What we say, what we recite, what we repeat. All of it matters. And the meaning behind the words we say matter just the same.

For this reason a Christian must never deny Jesus, especially to save their own life. Many have said they

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Schleitheim Confession: On the Ban

2 December 2009 Anabaptist  No comments

The second in a seven part series looking at the seven articles of the 1527 Schleitheim Confession. The ban, or excommunication, is not one of the happy topics discussed in churches, nor (sadly) is Church Discipline conducted much these days. I believe the model exemplified in this confession displays a Biblical, Christ controlled discipline.

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Schleitheim Confession: On Baptism

1 December 2009 Anabaptist  6 comments

The first in a seven part series looking at the seven articles of the 1527 Schleitheim Confession. Baptism, obviously a volatile issue in centuries past if you did not adhere to infant baptism, has just as much relevance and importance for the Church today.

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Nonresistant humility indeed

1 July 2009 Anabaptist, Nonviolence  No comments

Christian humility is not an affirmation of abuse or low self-esteem. It is not a retreat from the world's suffering and pain or a shrinking back from all expressions of power.To the contrary, Christian humility begins with a positive assertion: We

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Third Baptism of Felix Manz

16 April 2009 Anabaptist, Martyrdom  2 comments

His evil and heresy was nothing more than his faith and convictions that one must believe and baptized. In the poetic style of many of the persecutors of the faith over the centuries, death for the re-baptizer was via his third baptism.

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