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…
The Memoria Viva project narrates the founding of 60 Mennonite Brethren churches throughout Paraguay. The stories are filled with testimonies of God’s work in the lives of the first Christians and missionaries who served over the last 65 years among the Mennonite Brethren in Paraguay. Available as…
Baskets of bread awaiting the 2017 Pan y Paz march in Bogotá, Colombia Growing up as a child in a North American Mennonite congregation, the biblical texts about peacebuilding that I most often heard were from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. When I first…
BiNA Logo In May 2022 the Bibliothèque numérique anabaptiste (BiNA) website was created to share free French-language Anabaptist-Mennonite theological and historical resources online. This digital library, following the model of the successful Spanish-language Biblioteca Digital Anabautista (BiDA), will serve French distance-learning courses and other users…
Baptism Study Guide Historically, Catholics, Protestants, and Anabaptists have strongly disagreed about the meaning and method of baptism, even to the point of violence. Could these diverse Christian groups find common ground today or at the least, find ways to articulate and respect their differences?…
