Category Archives: Christian Identity

What is the Church called to be?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by SaeJin Lee

What is the Church called to be? The final interaction between Jesus and his disciples, in Acts 1, I believe, is a likely blueprint of what the Church is called to be. After Jesus rose from the dead, he reappeared … Continue reading →

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Will our children have faith?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Nelson Okanya

How can the church be a community that nourishes and nurtures the faith of our children and youth to live as God’s missional people in the world? Recently researchers concluded that there seems to be an “alternative faith” among American … Continue reading →

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My Bible Autobiography: Storybooks, Comic Books and Real Scripture, Part 2

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Nicholas Detweiler-Stoddard

(Continued from previous post) New Life and Death By the time I entered college, I had gone about as far as the prescribed morning devotional reading and topical Bible studies (all on the New Testament) would take me on their … Continue reading →

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Called to be Foreigners

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Aaron Kauffman

I know what it feels like to be a foreigner. I spent my junior year of college as a missionary intern in Ethiopia through Eastern Mennonite Missions. I was constantly reminded of my outsider status whenever I walked around the … Continue reading →

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Renewal from the Outside In?

Posted on September 5, 2011 by David Stutzman

In my last post, I wrote about the need for finding a new Anabaptist narrative. In part, this comes out of the experience that often Mennonites like to reach first for a particular history and particular set of distinctives as … Continue reading →

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My (Ana)baptism

Posted on September 3, 2011 by JR Rozko

I’m an Anabaptist.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not Mennonite, Hutterite, Brethren, or Amish and my name is Rozko for Pete’s sake! But I’m an Anabaptist nonetheless.  I may have been baptized in an Episcopalian church when I was a … Continue reading →

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Up a creek without a paddle? Which Anabaptist stream are you in?

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Matthew Krabill

Among many things, the MC USA Convention in Pittsburgh reminded me of the importance of revisiting words that we use in our everyday “Christian” vocabulary: words like missional, global church, and Anabaptism.  In the convention booklet for example, I read … Continue reading →

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What if we throw a party and nobody comes? Reflections on Laurelville

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Matt Hamsher

I have to admit that I had my doubts that we would be able to reach our capacity of some fifty people for the Laurelville meeting.  For one thing, it was not great timing for youth pastors (many of whom … Continue reading →

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Finding a New Anabaptist Narrative

Posted on June 13, 2011 by David Stutzman

In seminary I have spent a lot of time discussing and exploring the whole question of what Anabaptist distinctives mean for today, especially as we Mennonites relate to the broader culture and try to figure out our identity in a … Continue reading →

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