January 2025

In Memoriam: John David Derksen (1951–2024)

In This Issue

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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