The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) has found a new home with the ISGA. On May 19, 2017, members of the GAMEO management board voted unanimously to transfer oversight of the project to ISGA. John D. Roth will serve in a new position as the project’s general editor.
Front Row: John D. Roth, Cari Friesen, Emily Welty, Jan Bender Shelter, Pablo Kim, Elizabeth Miller, Wendy Urban-Mead, John Eicher. Back Row: Anika Fast, Jamie Pitts, Wilbert Shenk, Joe Sawatzky, Bruce Yoder, Jeremy Rich, Brent Kipfer, Ben Goossen. In late spring, nearly 20 professors, mission workers, pastors,…
By ISGA Director John D. Roth On January 24, 1982, leaders in the Marxist government of Ethiopia, who had seized power from Emperor Haile Selassie six years earlier, initiated a series of restrictive policies against the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC), a renewal movement of some 5,000 members that had emerged…
Recently the ISGA received a $20,000 grant from the Schowalter Foundation to translate three works of significance to global Anabaptism into four different languages—Spanish, French, Amharic, and either Hindi or Bahasa Indonesia. Mennonite World Conference expressed an interest in offering the following titles to their member churches, and the ISGA…
The Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) have collaborated in the creation of the Biblioteca Digital Anabautista (BiDA), a digital library of Anabaptist theological resources in Spanish found at biblioana.org. Hosted by AnabaptistWiki.org, the library supports a variety…
After more than three years of work, the Global Anabaptist Profile, a survey of 24 members conferences of Mennonite World Conference (MWC), is complete. The ISGA published the full report of the GAP in January and delivered it into the hands of Mennonite World Conference leaders in February,…
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…
Nearly five years ago—the exact date was October 26, 2010—I was “born again” … again! For many years, I, along with my colleagues at the Mennonite Historical Library (MHL), had been conscientious custodians of a long tradition of “scholarship for the church” bequeathed to us by historians…
