January 2025
In Memoriam: John David Derksen (1951–2024)
SECTION ONE: THE EARLY ANABAPTISTS’ LEGACIES
Anabaptism at 500: The Gift of a Complicated Legacy
John D. Roth
The German Peasants’ War and Anabaptism: 1524 and 1525
James M. Stayer
Hans Denck’s Baptism of Hans Hut
Geoffrey Dipple
“In guotz duon” (Do Them Good)
Hanspeter Jecker
Love Alone in Anabaptist Persuasion
Gerald J. Mast
Menno Simons’s Christology: The Sacrificial Lamb Living Among Boys, Girls, Orphans, Women, Widows, and Families, and Communities of Poor Migrants
Jaime Adrián Prieto Valladares
How the Anabaptists made World History in Secret
Christian Scheidegger
I’m Already Here! The Rabbit and the Hedgehog
Astrid von Schlachta
SECTION TWO: ANABAPTIST BAPTISM
Believers’ Baptism: A Reflection
Gary K. Waite
My Story: A Journey of Faith, Tradition, and Reflection
Elisabeth Kunjam
A Personal Reflection on Believer’s Baptism, Christian Identity, and Radical Discipleship from the Indonesian Mennonite Perspective
Paulus S. Widjaja
Oh, Happy Day
Barbara Nkala
Baptism in the History of the Reformation: What Impact?
Siaka Traoré
SECTION THREE: REFLECTIONS, NEW NARRATIVES,
AND NEW DIMENSIONS
On Regret
Bert Lobe
On the Move for 500 Years
Marlene Epp
In Search of Anabaptist Identity
Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
Anabaptist History Viewed from Paris
Neal Blough
Anabaptist Reason
Jamie Pitts
Tradition, Retrieval, and Reconstituting Memory:
Reflecting on Anabaptism’s 500-year Story
Karl Koop
Participating in God Embracing the World: Trinitarian Christocentrism and Liberating Mysticism (A Reflection on Anabaptist Theology and Spirituality from a Javanese Perspective)
Danang Kristiawan
“Woe is me, for I am undone”: Remembering as Repentance and Revival
Anicka R. Fast
Journeying in the Baptism-Martyrdom Matrix
Nancy R. Heisey
Crossing Language Borders with an Anabaptist View of the Gospel
Mark Jantzen
“Historical Sentiment” at Five Hundred Years: Abandoned Mines and Alternative Timelines
David Y. Neufeld
On Homes, Apocalypses, Weed Witches, Beautiful Errors, and Phantom Powers
Jeff Gundy
Anabaptist Critique
Maxwell Kennel
Book Reviews
Dora Dueck. All That Belongs.
Reviewed by Susan Fisher Miller
Thomas A. Oduro, Jonathan P. Larson, and James R. Krabill, eds. Unless a Grain of Wheat: A Story of Friendship Between African Independent Churches and North American Mennonites.
Reviewed by Jan Bender Shetler
Troy Osborne. Radicals and Reformers: A Survey of Global Anabaptist History.
Reviewed by Steven M. Nolt
Denny Weaver. New Moves: A Theological Odyssey.
Reviewed by Gerald W. Schlabach
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