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Articles : Anabaptist history

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Swiss to dedicate Anabaptist trail

On forested ridges with countless ravines in central Europe’s Jura mountains, early Swiss Anabaptists once eked out a living.

Soon people today will be able to walk in their steps on a two-part hiking trail, the Chemin des Anabaptistes, to be dedicated Sept. 18.
Swiss family returns to Anabaptism

Three hundred years of Anabaptist history came full circle Aug. 8 when Simon and Regula Fankhauser of Trub, Switzerland, were baptized.
First encyclopedia getting an update

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — A Bethel College professor is part of an ambitious project to revise and update the first Mennonite encyclopedia.

Voices and stories, diverse and united

For the first 18 years of my life, I didn’t know much about Mennonites beyond southern Pennsylvania, where my ancestors and extended family have lived for generations.

New York settlers’ descendants share lessons of past

CROGHAN, N.Y. — Descendants of the original 20 Mennonite families who settled here gathered with 400 others to celebrate 20 years of Zwanzigstein Fest.

Reappraisal of Asia sojourn

On my desk is Pilgrims on the Silk Road: A Christian-Muslim Encounter in Khiva by Walter R. Ratliff, published by Wipf and Stock, 2010, 293 pages, $34.
Siberian church extends welcome

SLAVGOROD, Russia — In this city there is a mass grave for at least 1,400 people, many of them Mennonites.
Memorial honors Iowa pioneers

DONNELLSON, Iowa — On what is now a grassy clearing in a cornfield once stood the first Mennonite church west of the Mississippi River.

Europeans visit historic Germantown

PHILADELPHIA — The oldest Mennonite community in America recently hosted a member of its mother church in Germany.