Anabaptist Witness Blog

Welcome to our blog, a forum to foster discussion and share ideas from different corners of the Anabaptist world. It is regularly updated with short reflection pieces, reactions to articles, comments on current events relating to mission, and more. If you are interested in contributing, please review our guidelines and contact information.

Book Review – Winds of the Spirit: A Profile of Anabaptist Churches in the Global South

By Titus Guenther | Posted on January 10, 2017

Happy New Year, dear Anabaptist Witness readers! Our first blog entry of 2017 is a  book review by Titus Guenther examining the relationship between the Pentacostal and Anabaptist traditions. Consider it a fortaste of our upcoming spring issue, “Following the Holy Spirit in Mission”. We wish you a blessed and spirit-filled new year!  Winds of […]

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Serving Colombia from Indonesia

By Rut Asari | Posted on November 10, 2016

I am grateful that I was born and raised in Indonesia, the world’s largest island country situated in Southeast Asia near Malaysia and the Philippines. Growing up, I always thought missionaries were mostly white people from the United States, Canada, or Europe; I never realized someone from Asia could serve God in this way. However, […]

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What is Witness? A Reflection on Article 10 of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective

By Jamie Ross | Posted on November 2, 2016

The following post from Anabaptist Witness Co-Editor Jamie Ross is part of an ongoing series of “roundtable posts” published in The Mennonite reflecting on the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective.  Ross’s contribution is one in a series of reflections on Article 10: The Church in Mission. Other contributors include Glenn Balzer, Neal Blough, […]

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It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

By Andi O. Santoso | Posted on October 12, 2016

I enjoy music, and I love Boyz II Men. Of their songs, one of my favorites is “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”. Even when we’re excited about the future, it can be difficult to let go of the past. This was my experience as a participant in the discipleship training program of […]

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Hispanic Heritage Month

By H. J. Recinos | Posted on September 25, 2016

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz explains that one of the most significant aspect of the human condition is that “we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life, but end in having lived only one.” For me, this one life began unfolding on Home Street in the South Bronx. My immigrant parents, […]

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The Impossible Invisibility of the Poor

By Katerina Parsons | Posted on September 20, 2016

Roberto Sosa, a Honduran poet, wrote: “The poor are many: that is why it is impossible to forget them.” Yet somehow, daily, we manage to do the impossible. I am living in one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere where, according to the World Bank, one-third of the people live in extreme poverty, […]

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Introducing the new Anabaptist Witness student assistant

By Jacob Liechty | Posted on September 12, 2016

We’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Anabaptist Witness team, Jacob Liechty. Here is an introduction in his own words. Glad to have you on board, Jacob! My name is Jacob Liechty, and I’m excited to be joining the Anabaptist Witness team as a student assistant. My own engagement with mission in the […]

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A Journey from Kenya to Coneflower Farm

By Wanza Mwenda | Posted on September 6, 2016

The following piece is the first entry in our new Anabaptist Young Adults in Mission Blog Series, sharing reflections on Anabaptist identity and engaging in different cultural contexts than one’s own. The author, Wanza Mwenda, is currently working with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) partners in her home country, Kenya, where she builds sand dams to […]

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Viviendo como la viuda

By Martin Navarro | Posted on August 28, 2016

Martin Navarro is Church Relations Representative for Everence, a financial services ministry of Mennonite Church USA and other churches. In this sermon on Luke 21:1–4, Navarro challenges his listeners to be like the widow who gave out of her poverty. We, like the widow, are called to be generous without showing off our generosity. Throughout […]

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Anabaptist Young Adults in Mission Blog Series: Introduction

By Sarah Werner | Posted on August 21, 2016

Welcome to the Anabaptist Young Adults in Mission blog series! This is the first in a series of blog posts in which current and former young adult Mennonite volunteers in mission will share their reflections on Anabaptist identity, the spiritual foundations of their work, and explore what it’s like to engage a culture that is […]

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