Elizabeth Miller After a significant leadership transition for the ISGA last spring following John D. Roth’s retirement announcement and Goshen College’s extensive candidate search, the ISGA was thrilled to announce a new director. In May 2022, Elizabeth Miller accepted the offer…
In March and April, the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) hosted the workshop “Writing the Stories of our Faith Communities,” facilitated by Mexican sociologist and historian Carlos Martínez García. Targeted to Latin American Anabaptists who wanted to learn how to write the stories of their own…
Spanish Workshops on Writing Congregational Histories On Saturday, March 19, 2022, Carlos Martínez—a Mennonite journalist, historian, and pastor in Mexico City—hosted the first of four Spanish-language workshops designed to encourage participants to take an active role in preserving sources relevant to the history of their congregations…
Following the announcement of Director John D. Roth’s appointment as project director of MennoMedia’s new “Anabaptist at 500” project, Goshen College has strongly affirmed its commitment to supporting the ongoing work of the ISGA. Not only will its…
Anicka Fast (Canada/Burkina Faso) Raised in Papua New Guinea, Anicka has also lived in a variety of francophone contexts in Africa and Québec. In 2020, she completed a PhD in theology at Boston University, where she focused on the history of Mennonites in Belgian Congo. She currently works…
The Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) has recently gathered several scholars from around the world to collaborate on research related to Global Anabaptist-Mennonite history and theology. This initiative grows out of ISGA’s mission to foster academic research oriented toward the beliefs and practices of…
“MennoMedia has hired John D. Roth of Goshen, Indiana, and Mollee Moua of Kitchener, Ontario, to oversee the development of a suite of resources to be released in 2025 in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of the start of Anabaptism.” Click this photo to read more from…
Luis Tapia Luis Tapia, a Chilean theologian and mission worker in Ecuador, joined the ISGA team this summer. Tapia, who grew up in the city of Valparaiso, was originally part of the Chilean Baptist church, which he describes as theologically similar to Southern Baptist churches in the…
This past summer, on June 6 and 13, the ISGA collaborated with Mennonite World Conference on a series of webinars titled “Believe and Be Baptized: Global Conversations on Baptism.” In the first of the webinars, John D. Roth engaged participants from nearly 40 countries on…
Jaime Prieto In the March issue of Rhizome we reported on an ISGA-initiated project to help preserve hundreds of interviews that Jaime Prieto, a Costa Rican Mennonite historian and church leader, conducted over the course of several decades as part of his research for Mission…
