To ‘clothed’ Anabaptists
Sometimes it takes an outsider to tell us quiet, unassuming Mennonites that we do indeed have clothes. Stuart Murray, a British biblical scholar from the Baptist tradition who has just published The Naked Anabaptist, wonders, in an interview with John Longhurst on page 4, why North American Mennonites have so little interest in Anabaptism when…
Sophomore CD released to much applause
The Friesen Family Band just keeps getting better! As quickly as the children grow, the seven-member family grows in its music, adding instruments, expertise and new material. On March 24, 2010, the band released its second CD, Dappled Things, at a concert at St. Andrews United Church, Edmonton. The music is fresh and often surprising…
Filling the Kohma
New cookbooks are ubiquitous, and family histories have become popular, but a cookbook that is a family history—or a family history that is a cookbook—is a curious hybrid. Lisa Heinrichs, who lives in Langley, B.C., loves to cook. She was well into research on her family’s history when she realized she could incorporate her culinary…
Spring 2010 List of Books & Resources
Theology 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus. Paul M. Zehr. Herald Press, 2010, 406 pages. This is the 22nd volume of the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series. Zehr has many years of experience as a pastor and teacher, including at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics and Devotion in the Book of Revelation. J.…
Exposing the ‘bare essentials’ of Anabaptism
Anabaptism has been around for almost 500 years. For much of that time, it has been clothed in Mennonite and Amish traditions and culture. But what does it look like without Mennonite and Amish clothing? That’s what Stuart Murray wondered. The result is The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials Of A Radical Faith (Herald Press).…
Anabaptism provides a map in the post-Christendom wilderness
It is becoming undeniably clear that western civilization has entered a post-Christian age. Whereas Christians once believed the world would eventually be brought within the expanding empire of Christendom, it is now obvious this will never happen. To the contrary, Christendom has been losing its influence on western culture for several hundred years. Undoubtedly, a…
Join ‘Naked Anabaptists’ on Facebook
No, it’s not what you might be thinking—nobody is nude. At least, not literally, although more than 300 people have joined the Naked Anabaptist group on the Facebook social media site to metaphorically explore what it means to strip down to the bare essentials of the Anabaptist faith. The new group was formed by Winnipeg…
Specializing in a Google world
In a Google world where millions of written works are at your fingertips, it’s tough for the average user to discern appropriate resources for Christian formation, leadership, peace and mission. And it’s an even greater challenge to keep Anabaptist and related resources as visible and accessible as we’ve come to expect them to be. Fortunately,…
They call it ‘couple-love’
A season of weddings. That’s what I see as I look ahead to the next few months. Many of the children born in the 1980s are now young adults falling in love, pledging their troth and bravely preparing to marry. Several invitations for these weddings dot our family bulletin board, some of which include photos…
Take good care of your children
“Who will take care of our children if something happens to us?” The decision about guardianship of minor children is one of the major hurdles facing parents when writing a will. Often it is because parents can’t agree on whom to name. Each parent may want his or her side of the family to be…
