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.
As part of his senior internship, Goshen College history major Ruam Barbosa has been cataloging and indexing the Portuguese-language interviews in the collection. Goshen College students have been key researchers at the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism this year, helping to catalog and index the…
In January 2023, the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) welcomed Isaiah Friesen in the role of administrative assistant and communications coordinator. Friesen is a Goshen College graduate and has participated in Anabaptist communities in the United States and Latin America, including Casa de Paz (Guatemala) and…
Spanish translation of the Baptism Study Guide In 2022 the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) published “Believe and Be Baptized”: Conversations on Baptism in the Anabaptist Mennonite Tradition, written by John D. Roth in collaboration with Thomas Yoder Neufeld. This study guide is…
Every year, the Maple Scholars Summer Research Program offers student researchers the opportunity to work with Goshen College faculty on research projects across various disciplines. This year, the Maple Scholars cohort includes a student who will be working on a project with the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism…
Ruth Gelane, AMBS Master of Arts: Theology and Peace Studies student and AMBS library assistant, prepares to generate full cataloging data for the Amharic translation of John Paul Lederach’s The Journey Toward Reconciliation. Ruth noticed in her research for an AMBS course that MHL’s Amharic materials were…
By Elizabeth Miller, ISGA Director This past semester, I tried an experiment. Rather than asking students for a traditional research paper in the Anabaptist history course I teach, I required them to study and reflect on biographies of 20th century Anabaptists. We spent a few weeks immersed in…
