Anicka Fast (Canada/Burkina Faso) Raised in Papua New Guinea, Anicka has also lived in a variety of francophone contexts in Africa and Québec. In 2020, she completed a PhD in theology at Boston University, where she focused on the history of Mennonites in Belgian Congo. She currently works…
The Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) has recently gathered several scholars from around the world to collaborate on research related to Global Anabaptist-Mennonite history and theology. This initiative grows out of ISGA’s mission to foster academic research oriented toward the beliefs and practices of…
“MennoMedia has hired John D. Roth of Goshen, Indiana, and Mollee Moua of Kitchener, Ontario, to oversee the development of a suite of resources to be released in 2025 in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of the start of Anabaptism.” Click this photo to read more from…
Luis Tapia Luis Tapia, a Chilean theologian and mission worker in Ecuador, joined the ISGA team this summer. Tapia, who grew up in the city of Valparaiso, was originally part of the Chilean Baptist church, which he describes as theologically similar to Southern Baptist churches in the…
This past summer, on June 6 and 13, the ISGA collaborated with Mennonite World Conference on a series of webinars titled “Believe and Be Baptized: Global Conversations on Baptism.” In the first of the webinars, John D. Roth engaged participants from nearly 40 countries on…
Jaime Prieto In the March issue of Rhizome we reported on an ISGA-initiated project to help preserve hundreds of interviews that Jaime Prieto, a Costa Rican Mennonite historian and church leader, conducted over the course of several decades as part of his research for Mission…
ISGA director John D. Roth has just published a new book detailing the history of three streams of Anabaptist-Mennonite church groups in Indonesia. A Cloud of Witnesses: Celebrating Indonesian Mennonites has already received enthusiastic praise from scholars and from Indonesian church leaders. “A Cloud of Witnesses is a…
The fall 2020 Rhizome featured the publication of a history book that tells the story of the GITJ synod—one strand of the Indonesian Mennonite Church. The Way of the Gospel in the World of Java: A History of the Muria Javanese Mennonite Church (GITJ) is still available for purchase! Follow…
On November 10, 2020, the ISGA participated in Round 2 of “The Anabaptist Story Lives On: Virtual Museum & Archive Tour.” This virtual Zoom tour organized by TourMagination involved archivists and executive directors from Anabaptist and Mennonite museums, archives, and heritage centers in the USA and Canada.
Jaime Prieto Valladares Jaime Prieto Valladares, a Costa Rican Mennonite historian, church leader, and former seminary dean, loves to hear the stories of Latin American Mennonite church leaders. For more than a decade, he traveled throughout Mexico, Central America and South America, recording interviews with over 130…
