Elizabeth Miller
Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism, Assistant Professor of History
Contact
- elizabethmm@goshen.edu
- (574) 535-7856
- Wyse Hall 301 (map)
Books
Desde el principio anabautistas: la historia de las iglesias menonitas y hermanos menonitas en Colombia, 1946-1975. Translated by Clara Helena Beltrán. Bogotá, D.C.: Editorial Gente Nueva, 2022.
Lisa Weaver and Elizabeth Miller. Let the Children Come to Me: Nurturing Anabaptist Faith within Families. Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing House, 2018.
Articles and other publications
“Engaging with our historical mosaic.” Leader 22.1 (Fall 2024): 11-13.
Review of A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace: Global Mennonite Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Nonviolence, edited by Fernando Enns, Nina Schroeder-van ’t Schip, and Andrés Pacheco-Lozano. Mennonite Quarterly Review 98, no. 1 (Jan 2024): 109-110.
“MCC accompanying the Colombian Anabaptist churches in their witness for peace.” Intersections: MCC theory and practice quarterly 8.3 (Summer 2020): 14-17.
“Responding to natural hazards in a conflict zone: MCC’s experience in Colombia.” Intersections: MCC theory and practice quarterly 7.4 (Fall 2019): 3-5.
Conrad Kanagy, Elizabeth Miller, and John D. Roth. Global Anabaptist Profile: Belief and Practice in 24 Mennonite World Conference Churches. Goshen, IN: Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism, 2017.
“Just as I don’t know how many times I eat: Mennonite Brethren Self-Theologizing in Chocó, Colombia,” Anabaptist Witness 2.2 (2015): 35-53.
“Migrants Learn Mission in Latin America: Colombian Mennonites and Mennonite Brethren in a Context of Rapid Urbanization, 1957-1980.” Mission Focus vol. 19 (2011): 9-17.
“Flinging Ourselves Upon the Impossible: Job 38-39 and Human Suffering through the Eyes of Liberation Theology.” In In Celebration of Wisdom: Life and Meaning in Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, ed. Steve Schweitzer. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2009.
Presentations, sermons, and podcasts
“Just Use the Canned Soup: A Conversation with Elizabeth Miller.” Interview with Erin Milanese and Abby Nafziger. Just Plain Wrong. Podcast audio. June 26, 2024.
“Colombian Anabaptist Stories and the Importance of Global Anabaptisms.” Presentation at Michiana Anabaptist Historians, Goshen, Indiana, March 23, 2024.
“¡Nos fuimos para Ciudad de México! Primera parte del reportaje maravilloso y musical.” Interview with Brayan Javier Márquez. Un Momento del Anabautismo. Podcast audio. March 28, 2024.
“500 años y el desafío de las nuevas y viejas generaciones: ¿Qué hacer con lo viejo?” Plenary address at the Primera Consulta Teológica de la Comunidad de Instituciones Teológicas Anabautistas, Mexico City, Mexico, February 19-22, 2024.
“Songs for the Road.” Sermon at Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship, Goshen, IN, July 23, 2023.
“From ‘Social Action’ to ‘Life Abundant’: The historical development of Anabaptist peace theology among Colombian Mennonites, 1970-2000.” Paper presented at the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, June 15-18, 2023.
“Repentance and Vulnerability in the Wilderness.” Sermon at Hopedale Mennonite Church, Hopedale, IL, February 26, 2023.
“What is the Colombian Mennonite peace witness?: Reviewing the historical sources.” Witness Colloquium, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, IN, November 16, 2022.
“Verdad y memoria en Lucas 19.” Presentation for Crisálida, an initiative of la Fundación Comunidad Viva, online, October 23, 2022.
“Writing a Church/Conference History.” Workshop presented at Power and Preservation Symposium: Enabling Access to the Sources Behind our Stories, Goshen College, Goshen, IN, June 16-19, 2019.
“Storytelling in your local church context.” Workshop presented at Mennonite World Conference Assembly 2015, Global Youth Summit, Mechanicsburg, PA, July 17-19, 2015.
“La historia de las iglesias anabautistas en Colombia.” Intensive course taught at the Seminario Bíblico Menonita de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, September 8-13, 2014.
“La historia de las iglesias hermanos menonitas en Colombia.” Intensive course taught at the Centro del Desarrollo Ministerial, Bogotá, Colombia, May 6-10, 2013.
“Migrants Learn Mission in Latin America.” Paper presentated at 2011 Shenk Mission Lectureship Program: Mirror on the Globalization of Mennonite Witness, Elkhart, IN, October 27-29, 2011.
“La formación de la identidad y la práctica en medio de la oposición: los menonitas del Tequendama durante La Violencia, 1948-1958.” Presentation at the Primer Congreso Nacional de Historia del Protestantismo en Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, October 14, 2011.
2022-present
Director
Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism and Mennonite Historical Library
Assistant professor of history
Goshen College (Goshen, Ind.)
2017-2022
Country Representative (Program Director)
Mennonite Central Committee Colombia-Ecuador (Bogotá, Colombia)
2013-2017
Administrative Assistant
Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism
Goshen College (Goshen, Ind.)
2009-2013
Anabaptist History and Identity Promoter
Mennonite Central Committee Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)