Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Ecumenical relations

Feb. 20 issue

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  Baptists catch Anabaptist vision

  Renowned evangelical pastor and author Rick Warren recently said Anabaptism has shaped him, his books and his 20,000-member church in Southern California.

  “For 32 years, we have been building Saddleback Church on the lessons I’ve learned from the Anabaptists,” he said at a conference on “Anabaptism and Contemporary Baptists” Jan. 30-31 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

June 13, 2011 issue

• German: Peace churches’ influence rises

  KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 10-year ecumenical peace initiative has helped the historic peace churches spread their influence, says Fernando Enns, a Mennonite leader from Germany.

Oct. 18, 2010 issue

• Lutheran visit affirms reconciliation process

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Ishmael Noko, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, visited with Mennonites during his first trip to Canada since a Lutheran apology for persecution of Anabaptists.

Sept. 20, 2010 issue

• Anti-poverty housing project draws builders to Indiana

  Where fallen-down, condemned homes once lined the poverty-stricken Fountain Square neighborhood of Indianapolis, 22 homes have been made simple and decent with help from hundreds of volunteers, including Mennonites and Amish.

Sept. 6, 2010 issue

• Visa denials shrink church meetings

  When the Baptist World Alliance held its global conference in Hawaii in August, it was missing about 1,000 attendees from around the world.

Aug. 9, 2010 issue

• Unresolved issues

  The Lutheran World Federation’s adoption of the statement “On the Legacy of Lutheran Persecution of ‘Anabaptists’ ” is the ritual culmination of an ecumenical dialogue that has been going on for more than a decade.

Aug. 2, 2010 issue

• Lutherans, Anabaptists reconcile

  STUTTGART, Germany — Representatives of 70 million Lutherans around the world asked forgiveness July 22 for the violent persecution of Anabaptists in the 16th century.

July 5, 2010 issue

• Lutherans to heal centuries-old ‘wound’

  Lutherans from around the world will seek a historic reconciliation with Mennonites and other Christians of the Anabaptist tradition.

March 1, 2010 issue

• AMBS prof chronicles ecumenical discussions

  ELKHART, Ind. — As several Reformation traditions prepare for their 500th anniversaries, a new book records dialogue among them.

Jan. 11, 2010 issue

• Churches to end ‘yoked fellowship’

  Two Iowa congregations that maintained a “yoked fellowship” for 40 years must now figure out how to unyoke.

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