Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Anabaptist history

Feb. 6 issue

• 

  Lapp

  The uniqueness of Winnipeg

  On my desk is At the Forks: Mennonites in Winnipeg by Leo Driedger, published by Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ont., 2010, 473 pages, $29.95.

  A sociologist and Mennonite church leader for more than 50 years, Leo Driedger is a retired faculty member at the University of Manitoba. He has written widely on topics such as Mennonite urbanization, professionalization, identity, ethnicity and peacemaking. He co-authored one of the major church member profiles, Mennonite Mosaic: Identity and Modernization (1991).

Dec. 19, 2011 issue

• Year in Review: Crime, punishment, wounded communities

  Two Mennonite communities that could not have been more different — a U.S. college campus and a Bolivian col­ony that shuns modern ways — reeled from horrifying crimes in 2011.

Oct. 10, 2011 issue

• Dutch celebrate church history

  Dutch Mennonites have found ample reason to celebrate their history this year.

May 16, 2011 issue

• Bethel student’s paper examines 1972 MWC controversy

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — A Bethel College student’s prize-winning paper sheds some light on conflict and reconciliation in the face of Mennonites’ growing global diversity.

May 9, 2011 issue

• Ontario origins

  WATERLOO, Ont. — Those who attend Mennonite Church Canada’s annual assembly in Waterloo July 4-8 will visit the region where Canadian Mennonite history began.

Feb. 21, 2011 issue

• Event recalls 1711 deportation of Swiss Anabaptists

  EPHRATA, Pa. — More than 400 Mennonites and Amish commemorated the 300th anniversary of a 1711 deportation of Anabaptists from Bern, Switzerland, with presentations by historians James Lowry and John Ruth at Christian Aid Ministries.

Feb. 7, 2011 issue

• Recovering stories of Eastern Europe

  CHICAGO — The story of Anabaptist martyrs in Eastern Europe in the 20th century is just as important as that of 16th-century Anabaptists, according to Walter Sawatsky, a Mennonite missiologist and historian.

Jan. 17, 2011 issue

• Goshen exhibit depicts churchgoing

  GOSHEN, Ind. — An exhibit at Goshen College will illustrate worldwide traditions of Mennonite church buildings and church-going.

Jan. 3, 2011 issue

• Stories written in stone

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — A North Newton man is looking for threshing stones.

Dec. 20, 2010 issue

• Year in Review: Times to mourn, celebrate, reconcile

  For Mennonites, 2010 brought times to weep, to celebrate and to cast off burdens of the past.

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