Becoming a Mennonite Quaker LOIS FREY* Ten years ago when I was first becoming Quaker and told my older son about what I was doing, he said, ?Oh, Mom, you’ll always be a Mennonite.? In some ways, he was right. Being Mennonite has a very strong cultural as well as…
Reflections on Growing up Mennonite in Lancaster County MARY JEAN KRAYBILL* The Mennonite church where my family attended was more than ten miles from our home, which seemed like a vast distance to me as a child whose primary activities unfolded within a two-mile radius of my house. Nevertheless, every…
On Being a Mennonite Catholic IVAN J. KAUFFMAN* When I told my wife, whose ancestors have all been Amish or Mennonite since at least the seventeenth century, that I was becoming a Catholic, she answered that it was impossible. Although she and our children later joined me in becoming Catholic,…
Retrospect and Apologia DENNIS D. MARTIN* RADICAL REFORMATION AND THE SEARCH FOR CREDIBLE RADICES To explain why I am no longer a Mennonite I must begin with whether and to what degree I ever was a Mennonite. Although I am descended from David Martin of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Mennonite…
Thinking Theologically about War against Iraq TED KOONTZ* From: The Mennonite Quarterly Review 77 (January, 2003), 93-108 Abstract: It is helpful to think in terms of a “first language” and a “second language” in seeking to address questions of war and peace. The ability to speak a second…
The Mennonite Year in Review “They Left Everything and Followed Him”: A Year of Finding a New Way to Community ROBERT RHODES[*] Jesus said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” . . . When they had done…
Mennonite World Conference 1925-2000: From Euro-American Conference to Worldwide Communion JOHN A. LAPP AND ED VAN STRATEN* Abstract: In 1925 Mennonites in Europe began a series of meetings they called Mennonite World Conference (MWC). They intended these occasional meetings to deepen fraternal ties, commemorate shared histories and strengthen common spiritual…
Atonement, Violence and the Will of God: A Sympathetic Response to J. Denny Weaver’s The Nonviolent Atonement CHRISTOPHER D. MARSHALL* Abstract: In the past generation, criticism of “satisfaction” theologies of atonement has grown in intensity, especially among feminist, womanist and black theologians. Mennonite theologian J. Denny Weaver has recently…
The “Green Hell” Becomes Home: Mennonites in Paraguay as Described in the Writings of Peter P. Klassen A Review Essay GERHARD REIMER* Kaputi Mennonita, eine friedliche Begegnung im Chacokrieg. Collected and edited by Peter P. Klassen. Filadelfia, Paraguay: n.p. 1975. Pp. 166. Immer kreisen die Geier: Ein…
Not Pledging as Liturgy: Lessons from Karl Barth and American Mennonites on Refusing National Oaths JOHN PERRY* Abstract: Controversy over whether Christians may offer national oaths-such as Barth’s refusal of Hitler’s loyalty oath and the Mennonite debate about the Pledge of Allegiance-can help the church better understand its relation…
