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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — Bluffton University will celebrate books with “Drawing Near,” an event featuring poets Jeff Gundy, Ruth Naylor, Obi Martin, Shannon McKeehan, Sheri Hostetler and others at 4 p.m. Sunday, ...

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 ...

JWHA Journal is published twice a year. There are opportunities for scholars, young and old, professional and armchair, to contribute their ideas, essays, and papers. Specific focus of interest for ...

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 ...

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 ...