By Isaiah Friesen Resources from the Biblioteca Digital Anabautista (Digital Anabaptist Library–BiDA) are making an impact through an initiative of the Iglesia Menonita Hispana (Hispanic Mennonite Church–IMH). The Academia de Liderazgo Misional Anabautista (Academy of Anabaptist Missional Leadership–ALMA) was founded in 2019 with the goal of responding to practical…
By Isaiah Friesen The ISGA was pleased to have Workineh Ayele Yami, a leader in the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) in Ethiopia, as a teaching and research intern throughout the recently completed academic year. Workineh is a Master of Arts: Theology and Peace Studies student at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical…
In February representatives of the participating members of the Comunidad de Instituciones Teológicas Anabautistas (Community of Anabaptist Theological Institutions-CITA) gathered in Mexico City, Mexico, for a theological consultation focused on the challenges and possibilities for theological education in Spanish-speaking communities throughout the Americas and Europe. The ISGA participates in…
Julián Guamán visited the Mennonite Historical Library for a few weeks of research this spring. Guamán is a Kichwa leader in the Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Ecuador (Christian Mennonite Church of Ecuador) and a scholar of Latin America studies. For three weeks this spring, the Mennonite Historical…
A conference on “Early Anabaptism in Global Perspective,” commemorating the 500th anniversary of the first “re-baptisms” in Zurich and the development and spread of Anabaptism, will be held July 22-24, 2025 at Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA). The conference will focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anabaptism and will give special…
Workineh Ayele Yami, a teacher and pastor from Ethiopia, recently developed and taught a one-week module on the history of the Meserete Kristos Church for the ‘Anabaptism in Global Context’ course at Goshen College. Workineh’s work with the ISGA fulfills the internship requirement for the…
Goshen College student Mckenzie Richardson adapted this biography written by Barbara Nkala and Doris Dube, in Growing and Branching Out: Brethren In Christ Church in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa (2014). Published online in the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO), it has been adapted and reprinted here…
By Danang Kristiawan, ISGA Research Fellow Danang Kristiawan began as a Research Fellow with the ISGA in 2021 and is passionate about contextual theological education from an Indonesian Mennonite perspective. He currently pastors a GITJ church in Jepara and teaches Anabaptist history and theology at the Mennonite seminary…
By Elizabeth Miller, ISGA Director Theologians and missiologists have sometimes used the image of a mosaic to illustrate how different cultural expressions and faith traditions can contribute to a more complex and varied understanding of who we are as church communities and what the Holy Spirit is doing among…
The Biblioteca Digital Anabautista (BiDA) continues to be active, making Spanish-language material available online for seminary courses in various parts of the world. Recent new titles in the BiDA include: La Confianza Sagrada: Límites saludables para el liderazgo en las iglesias, by Alix Lozano and Elizabeth Soto.
