A Prophet Pushed Out: Vincent Harding and the Mennonites by Tobin Miller Shearer
Tobin Miller Shearer is associate professor of history and director of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Montana. He has written widely on religion, race, and Mennonites in the civil rights movement; his most recent book is Two Weeks Every...
Oregon Remembrance Project
The Pacific Northwest Mennonite Historical Society suggests you consider the following project. The Community Remembrance Project aims to work in the communities where the lynchings of African Americans took place to find healing and reconciliation through a sober...
Anabaptist History Today
Join us in recording Anabaptist life in today’s changing world. Historical, biological, and social realities have made 2020 an exceptional year. Anabaptist History Today invites you to share your stories as you live in these times (para español, haga clic aquí). As...
The church we’re called to be
This article comes from the September issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “135 years” of The Mennonite and Gospel Herald. Twenty-seven years ago, not even I expected to be in this seat. I didn’t know what a Mennonite or an Anabaptist was, but now I find myself at...
A common identity and purpose: A partner in the institutional church
This article comes from the September issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “135 years” of The Mennonite and Gospel Herald. Are we not also brethren? Pioneer Mennonite publisher John F. Funk wrote these words in response to a letter from a friend in the weeks...
135 Years: A history of ‘The Mennonite’
This article by John D. Thiesen comes from the September issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “135 years” of The Mennonite and Gospel Herald. Newspapers and magazines as we think of them today (and as they undergo major transformation in technology) were mainly a...
State of the Race: A Short History of Mennonite Racial Statements, 1940-1979
In 1955, white Mennonite church periodical editor Paul Erb wrote, “Perhaps in nothing have our Mennonite people so completely conformed themselves to a worldly idea as in this.”1 He was not referring to dancing, watching movies, cutting hair (women’s! – not men’s),...
Branch Valley Characters (Part 1)
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MCC webinar series on immigration and border realities
MCC invites you to a free six-part webinar series on immigration and border realities. Join MCC staff and partners in the field who will provide insight into the current reality of the U.S. immigration and border crisis. Check it out at this link....
The Anabaptist Story Lives on: Virtual Museum & Archive Tour
7 pm CT/8 pm ET on Tuesday evenings in May & June, join archivists and executive directors from Anabaptist and Mennonite museums, archives, and heritage centres across North America for 20-minute presentations followed by Q&A. Presenters will show unique...