Today’s Photo Friday excerpt focuses on Brethren in Christ Ronald J. Sider’s historic 1984 speech to Mennonite World Conference and his call to imagine an Anabaptist “alternative to the sword.”

A few Brethren in Christ-related links that caught my attention over the past weeks.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday today, read one Brethren in Christ pastor’s reflections on the relationship between Anabaptism and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Check out a recent IN PART article (written by Harriet Bicksler and Curtis Book) that explores this complex question.

How evangelical theology can reinforce and refine the Anabaptist vision for Christian peacemaking.

At Monday night’s Schrag Lecture at Messiah College, noted theologian Ronald J. Sider shared a familiar critique of Christianity… with an unfamiliar Early Church flair.