Ruth Gelane, AMBS Master of Arts: Theology and Peace Studies student and AMBS library assistant, prepares to generate full cataloging data for the Amharic translation of John Paul Lederach’s The Journey Toward Reconciliation. Ruth noticed in her research for an AMBS course that MHL’s Amharic materials were…
By Elizabeth Miller, ISGA Director This past semester, I tried an experiment. Rather than asking students for a traditional research paper in the Anabaptist history course I teach, I required them to study and reflect on biographies of 20th century Anabaptists. We spent a few weeks immersed in…
The Memoria Viva project narrates the founding of 60 Mennonite Brethren churches throughout Paraguay. The stories are filled with testimonies of God’s work in the lives of the first Christians and missionaries who served over the last 65 years among the Mennonite Brethren in Paraguay. Available as…
Baskets of bread awaiting the 2017 Pan y Paz march in Bogotá, Colombia Growing up as a child in a North American Mennonite congregation, the biblical texts about peacebuilding that I most often heard were from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. When I first…
BiNA Logo In May 2022 the Bibliothèque numérique anabaptiste (BiNA) website was created to share free French-language Anabaptist-Mennonite theological and historical resources online. This digital library, following the model of the successful Spanish-language Biblioteca Digital Anabautista (BiDA), will serve French distance-learning courses and other users…
Baptism Study Guide Historically, Catholics, Protestants, and Anabaptists have strongly disagreed about the meaning and method of baptism, even to the point of violence. Could these diverse Christian groups find common ground today or at the least, find ways to articulate and respect their differences?…
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…
