… ways throughout the year,” said Pastor Dennis Beckner. “It is … documents – is a historic Anabaptist denomination. Creating space The grant … Church, Elkhart; Waterford Mennonite Church, Goshen; Eden Mennonite Church, Moundridge, Kansas; Hope Mennonite Church …

… and responsive, unafraid to follow Jesus into new terrain. In … church that looks like the neighborhood My prayer is that Anabaptist … skeptics find belonging and where Jesus is encountered in shared … the presence of the Risen Christ among us: in scripture, …

… Newer Testament, come what may. Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch … /AP Anabaptists insisted on soul freedom, Bible freedom, church freedom and religious freedom … is now Iznik, Turkey, bishops declared Jesus Christ was “of one substance” with …

… I pastored in an Anabaptist denomination — Brethren in Christ — that was not … I joined Mennonite Church USA as a pastor in May 2023. … opportunity to serve as a pastor in MC USA, Allegheny … weeks later, the Ethiopian Anabaptist church pulled out of hosting the …

… center? In the past, Anabaptist identity was unselfconscious. It’s … Jesus. But something changed. Like Ezekiel, who trained to be a priest … When we wrench off the church’s trinitarian, incarnational, creedal … rediscover our sacred center, Christ’s heart for our …

… it is not. I want Anabaptists to model something better. A … follow in the way of Jesus. That is the work. And …

… , was the most radical thing Jesus embodied. While Nietzsche rejected institutional … earliest generations of Anabaptists — women and men who followed Christ’s peace … imagination, emotion and desire. The church of the future will need …

… is “brothers and sisters in Christ” an empty phrase? These questions … will become just another church entity that some Anabaptists refuse to be … cudgels of conformity and exclusion. Jesus said two principles were enough …

… 75th anniversary celebration of the Church Hymnal, known as the … “Just a Little Talk with Jesus,” “What a Friend We … no more.”  A retired pastor here in Western North Carolina … Earth — theology that feels extremely Anabaptist. Although not fully realized, …

… — values many of our global Anabaptist brothers and sisters continue to … Facebook comment   Policies in Mennonite Church USA don’t aim to … our unity as siblings in Christ over allegiance to one theological … more we seek to serve Jesus alongside those who agree …