Bearing Witness to Release Book with Plough Publishing

The Bearing Witness Sto-ries Project and Plough Publishing eagerly await the publication of Bearing Wit-ness: Stories of Martyrdom and Costly Discipleship on March 1, 2016.

Featuring stories from the early church through the present day, this collection represents the first print publication inspired by the Bearing Witness Stories Project.

Since the birth of Christianity, the church has commemorated those who suffered for their faith. Stories of the boldness and steadfastness of early Christian and Reformation-era martyrs have been handed down from one generation to the next through books such as Thiele-man van Braght’s Martyrs Mirror (1660).

For this particular project, Plough editors used the frame-work adopted by the ISGA’s Bearing Witness Stories Project, focusing their selections on Anabaptist martyrs and others who have suffered for their com-mitment to believer’s baptism and nonviolence in the way of Jesus.

Together the stories provide a complex and diverse portrait of costly discipleship and Christian faithfulness.

For more information about the book’s contents and pricing, please see: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/bearing-witness-stories-of-martyrdom.

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Featured stories:

Early Christians: Stephen, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Agathonica, Papylus, Carpus, Perpetua, Tharacus, Probus, Andronicus, and Marcellus

Radical Reformers: Jan Hus, Michael and Margaretha Sattler, Weynken Claes, William Tyndale, Jakob and Katharina Hutter, Anna Janz Early

Modern Stories: Veronika Löhans, Jacob Hochstetler, Gnadenhütten, Joseph and Michael Hofer, Emanuel Swartzendruber, Regina Rosenberg, Eberhard and Emmy Arnold, Johann Kornelius Martens, Ahn Ei Sook, Jakob Rempel

Recent Stories: Clarence Jordan, Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, Tulio Pedraza, Stanimir Katanic, Samuel Ka-kesa, Kasai Kapata, Meserete Kristos Church of Ethiopia, Sarah Corson, Alexander Men, José Chuquín, Norman Tattersall, Katherine