Peacefully Managing Conflict
Conflict is unavoidable–especially in today’s heated culture. Jesus calls us…
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- This year, the world celebrates 500 years of the Anabaptist movement. There are websites, European tours planned and Anabaptist-themed study Bibles on the way. Anabaptism itself is a kaleidoscopic movement—the Radical Reformation it spawned included reformers from the violent apocalypticism of Thomas Müntzer to the peaceful separatism of Menno Simons. Today, its descendants include traditions as variant as the Amish and, well, the Mennonite Brethren. It is a movement that spans the globe, with the majority of those baptized into Anabaptist-rooted churches coming from Africa, Asia and Latin America. And it all started with a baptism. “Fear came over them…” […]
- “Why was baptism such a big deal?” Whenever I talk with new learners about the evangelical Anabaptists of the Reformation period, I know this will be a question that comes up. One the one hand, the very idea that someone could be hunted and killed over what seemed like a squabble over baptismal practice appears extreme to many today. On the other hand, that these early radicals were willing to let themselves be drowned, hanged or even burned over their baptismal convictions seems at first glance to be perhaps wasteful. (By one estimate, 4,000 Anabaptists were martyred during the early […]
- “You belong to the accursed Anabaptists, who originate strange sects, opinions, errors and contention among the people!” It was 1544 and John Claesz and Lucas Lambertsz van Beveren stood before four judges in Amsterdam, listening to the charges against them. Although everyone in Christendom was baptized as infants, these two men renounced that event and repeated the ritual as adults. As a result, they found themselves arraigned on charges of being Anabaptist. What does it mean to be Anabaptist? Looking at heroes like Claesz and Lambertsz from five centuries ago, we might be tempted to think the spirit of Ana-baptism […]
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