Anabaptist tagged posts

Being separate, but how much?

9 June 2013 Anabaptist, Top Stories  One comment

"In the context of the new, sociologically neutral use of the term "sect" introduced in the twentieth century by Weber and Troeltsch, historians friendly to Anabaptism have adopted a view very much like Zwingli's.

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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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Third Way Farming

28 December 2012 Schleitheim Farm, Top Stories  5 comments

One the one hand, there are large farms, which include but are not limited to the companies you find in so-called Big Ag. Typically they are characterized as extremely large operations, with a massive amount of

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A farm it is then

20 July 2012 Schleitheim Farm  No comments

We live on a farm. It's probably not what your thinking. There's no big red barn. There are no rolling fields of corn or hay. And there are no sheep dogs to call on. Since we have no sheep why would we need the services of a sheep dog?

No,

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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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Schleitheim Academy Update

6 June 2010 Schleitheim Academy  6 comments

I just wanted to give a quick update on how our schooling is going along with a few links to some great resources I have come across recently.

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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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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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Churches and Guns: If violence was okay…

9 July 2009 Martyrdom, Nonviolence, Reformation  One comment

Ninthly, he has said that if the Turks should invade the country, no resistance ought to be offered them; and if it were right to wage war, he would rather take the field against the Christians than against the Turks; and it is certainly a great

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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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