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Some of you may remember filling out an online survey in 2014 about your relationship to the Brethren in Christ Church, your Christian beliefs and practic- es, and the level of your agreement with various statements regarding contempo- rary social issues. During 2014, twenty-four Anabaptist groups around the world participated...read more
The Global Anabaptist Profile (GAP) is a multi-nation research project led by John Roth (Goshen College) and Conrad Kanagy (Elizabethtown College) on behalf of Mennonite World Conference. The Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) at Goshen College. sponsored the project. The results of the project were shared at...read more
RONALD J. SIDER. Nonviolent Action: What Christian Ethics Demands But Most Christians Have Never Really Tried. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2015. Pp. 191. $19.99 (U.S.) Ron Sider, in Nonviolent Action, addresses both Just War theorists and pacifists on the demands and effectiveness of nonviolent action. He defines nonviolent action...read more
John E. Sharp. My Calling To Fulfill: The Orie O. Miller Story. Harrisonburg, VA/Kitchener, ON: Herald Press, 2015. Pp. 439. $29.99 (U.S.) Orie O. Miller is described as “one of the major architects of North American Mennonite Church life in the twentieth century” (p. 7) and as one who “has...read more
ROGER E. OLSON and CHRISTIAN T. COLLINS WINN. Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015. Pp. 190. $18.00 (U.S.) If you know anything at all about the Brethren in Christ Church, you probably know it has been influenced theologically by Anabaptism, Pietism,...read more
Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War. By Duane C. S. Stoltzfus. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2013. Pp. 268. The 1918 deaths of two Hutterite conscientious objectors (COs) after being tortured in U.S. prisons links them to ancestors who died for their faith and also...read more