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What Can We Learn from the Mormons?

By Palmer Becker | Posted on July 7, 2015

The conversations started in the Anabaptist Witness print edition don’t end there. We continually publish new work on our blog and website that build upon and diversify the current issue’s theme. The following piece is a continuation of the April issue’s theme of encountering the religious “other,” taking a look at aspects of the Mormon […]

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Colombian Mennonite Peace Worker Receives Death Threat: Agustín Jiménez’s Story (Español/English)

By Peter Stucky | Posted on June 20, 2015

La siguiente nos recuerda que, a pesar del proceso de paz en Colombia, los discípulos de Jesucristo que trabajan por la paz todavía encuentran oposición. Peter Stucky es un pastor en la Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia. Después de su texto hay una traducción al inglés por el co-redactor de Anabaptist Witness Jamie Pitts. The following […]

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Book Review – “Jesus and the Resurrection: Reflections of Christians from Islamic Contexts”

By John F. Lapp | Posted on June 12, 2015

In the following book review – a for-the-blog exclusive piece – John F. Lapp explores a concept central to the topic Theology of Religions: interfaith dialogue. It makes for an interesting read alongside an online article by Jim Pankratz, “Jesus Plus:Plus Jesus“, which was released today and also considers the significance of Jesus in other […]

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Missiological Reflections for Christian-Muslim Engagement

By Alain Epp Weaver | Posted on May 25, 2015

The following is an excerpt from Alain Epp Weaver’s presentation at the Council for International Anabaptist Ministries gathering in January 2015. The entire presentation is available as a PDF download [at the bottom of the page]. The presentation is an historical overview of inter-Anabaptist consultations on Christian-Muslim encounter since the 1960s, and is based on […]

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Gravestones and Light

By H. J. Recinos | Posted on May 11, 2015

The following is a series of poems written in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death. This event, like several before it, has brought the deeply ingrained racial tensions and injustices in American society – especially in its vulnerable urban areas – into light. In reacting to these events, Harold Recinos bears witness to the suffering […]

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Yom Ha’Shoah

By H. J. Recinos | Posted on April 16, 2015

sometimes I go back to the candy store on Broadway to see the old man with numbers on his forearm who tried explaining how he was ripped from his mother’s arms beneath a moon lit sky and taken to a place to weep, to starve, to see many only find death at the end of […]

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Lenten Witness Day By Day: Prayer Calender for Witness Work in West Africa

By Deb Bergen | Posted on March 9, 2015

As the Lenten season is now well underway, this week’s post highlights a creative variation of the Lent prayer calendar. Deb Bergen takes us day by day through the work of the Mobile Member Care Team supporting African Independent Church pastors, offering us insight into their work and the opportunity to pray for their context […]

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Sowing Kingdom Seeds Down Under

By Mark S. Hurst | Posted on February 21, 2015

In a poem written in honour of Oscar Romero called “A Future Not Our Own” are these lines that we find meaningful for our ministry in Australia and New Zealand: This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water the seeds already planted knowing that they hold […]

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Pray and Be Vigilant! A Plea from the Persecuted Church in Nigeria | Part Three

By Sharon Williams | Posted on February 7, 2015

This is article three of a three-part series The relief ministries of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) have material needs of staggering proportions. But the one thing they crave from their Christian sisters and brothers, is that we pray with them. “We are lifted up when we know that you […]

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We Still Have Hope: The Testimony of the Persecuted Church in Nigeria | Part Two

By Sharon Williams | Posted on January 31, 2015

This is article two of a three-part series Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) is in a tremendous time of trial. This Anabaptist denomination has been passing through a concentrated Boko Haram campaign of destruction, killing, kidnapping, and enslaving for five years. But the witness of EYN is Spirit-inspired and nothing short […]

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