Elizabeth Miller

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

“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 workshops

“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)